Migrant workers waiting for buses at Sahara Darwaja in Surat
Surat: While memories of migrant workers resorting to violence last year demanding to be allowed to go to their natives are still fresh, migrant labourers employed in Surat’s textile and diamond industries have once again started moving out of the city in spite of the chief minister’s repeated assurance that there will be no lock down this year.
However, anticipating a double whammy of lockdown and infection from the new strain of coronavirus, workers are seen ready to pay up to Rs 3,000 to get a berth in the private luxury buses leave from Sachin GIDC, Pandesara, Sahara Darwaja and Delhi Gate for Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other states every night.