Two women, both named Nanhi Devi, are the bread winners in their families. Nanhi Devi (right) lost her husband and in-laws to TB, while the other woman's husband is too old and rests at home | Jyoti Yadav | ThePrint
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Bilpur, Uttar Pradesh: Among the hundreds of migrants who walked, cycled and/or managed to board state government buses back to their villages, some of them have returned to work on fields.
ThePrint, which has been travelling to states to track the developing Covid-19 story, came across some of them labouring on farms in Uttar Pradesh.
Most of the migrants were from UP and Bihar.
The farm work has been commissioned under a MGNREGA scheme by the village and block administration to ensure the workers can at least manage their daily meals at a time the country’s, and even the world’s, economies have stalled.
ThePrint met these workers at Bilpur village, located at the border of Shahjahanpur and Bareilly districts, who spoke about their experience during the lockdown.
Workers take a break from tilling the land. They had managed to reach home in late March, after which they quarantined themselves for 14 days before starting work on the farms | Jyoti Yadav | ThePrintAround 110 labourers works the fields near Chakroad, including a 10-years-old | Jyoti Yadav | ThePrintThe journey to these farms has included the hundred of kilometres the migrants walked from cities such as Delhi and Mumbai. Back home, they now struggle to feed their families | Jyoti Yadav | ThePrintTo ensure there no outbreak, hand sanitisers have been provided while labourers follow social distancing | Jyoti Yadav | ThePrintFor Ram Kumar, a 35-years-old labourer from Bilpur, these hardships are just another struggle he needs to overcome. Through it all, his trusty cycle has been his companion | Jyoti Yadav | ThePrint
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Why UP and Bihar CM can’t provide decent to their ppl in their own States ? Why do their ppl hv to go to other States to fend for themselves ? Why only nautanki, jumlabaazi Hindu Muslim, fake Nationalism ? Disgusting and pathetic.
Why UP and Bihar CM can’t provide decent to their ppl in their own States ? Why do their ppl hv to go to other States to fend for themselves ? Why only nautanki, jumlabaazi Hindu Muslim, fake Nationalism ? Disgusting and pathetic.
Why UP and Bihar CM can’t provide decent to their ppl in their own States ? Why do their ppl hv to go to other States to fend for themselves ? Why only nautanki, jumlabaazi Hindu Muslim, fake Nationalism ? Disgusting and pathetic.
May Providence Bless them All and Deliver them to Salvation.
Your comment is awaiting Moderation”? On a Blessing? Where are you guys coming from in terms of logic?