{"id":17883,"date":"2020-05-04T21:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/coronavirus-destitute-migrant-workers-india-forced-pay-train-fares-home"},"modified":"2020-05-04T21:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:36:28","slug":"destitute-migrant-workers-in-india-forced-to-pay-train-fares-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17883","title":{"rendered":"Destitute migrant workers in India forced to pay train fares home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labourers\u2019 plight contrasts with affluent Indians flown home from abroad in coronavirus crisis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/coronavirus-destitute-migrant-workers-india-forced-pay-train-fares-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labourers\u2019 plight contrasts with affluent Indians flown home from abroad in coronavirus crisisCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMigrant labourers in Indian cities whose incomes have plummeted as a result of anti-coronavirus lo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions\/17884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}