Destitute migrant workers in India forced to pay train fares home
Labourers’ plight contrasts with affluent Indians flown home from abroad in coronavirus crisis
Migrant labourers in Indian cities whose incomes have plummeted as a result of anti-coronavirus lockdown measures have been told that they will have to pay to board special trains taking them back to their homes in the countryside.
The decision has prompted derision in India, where most labourers live off what they earn in a day and have been surviving on state handouts.
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