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Ranchi: Govind Kumar is a resident of Bagodar block in Giridih district. For nearly five years now, Govind has been working at a coffee shop in Mumbai’s Worli to sustain his family back home. Govind earns nearly Rs 30,000 a month, of which he can send a little back home. On Thursday, Govind doled out a chunk of his salary to purchase air tickets to the state. With Maharashtra announcing night curfews and lockdowns during the weekends in a desperate effort to tame the spiralling Covid-19 infection rate, Govind’s employers have downed the shutters indefinitely.
“Night curfews are in place till April 30, so my employer asked me to go home. He said he will summon me once situations ease out,” Govind said outside Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport upon arrival.
Local curbs, fear of lockdown spur another exodus of migrant workers
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The second wave of Covid infections is sparking another migration of workers returning to their home states from places reporting sharp increases in cases. This threatens to reverse the gains from around Diwali last year when workers who had left in the first exodus had started to return to the states where they had worked. Each day, hundreds of migrants are returning to Ranchi.
Jharkhand is one such state to which people have started to return after several big cities imposed curbs, night curfews and lockdowns to tackle the second wave of Covid.
Jharkhand is one such state to which people have started to return after several big cities imposed curbs, night curfews and lockdowns to tackle the second wave of Covid.
RANCHI/BERHAMPUR/BENGALURU: The second wave of Covid infections is sparking another reverse migration of workers returning to their home states from places reporting sharp increases in cases.
This threatens to reverse the gains from around Diwali last year when workers who had left in the first exodus had started to return to the states where they had worked. Jharkhand is one such state to which people have started to return after several big cities imposed curbs, night curfews and lockdowns to tackle the second wave of Covid.
Bokaro: Although Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) served notices to the squatters settled around the airport here, which is being expanded into a commercial one, illegal residents continue to enter the premise from the Dundibagh area by scaling the eight-feet high boundary wall just to defecate.
The workers engaged in the construction of the boundary walls find it difficult to work amid the filth. A labour said, “After coming to work each morning, we pour mud on the excreta to stop the smell, which otherwise makes it difficult for us to work.”
The squatters use the scaffolding of the new boundary wall to enter the premises. Wilfred Kerketta, deputy general manager and the in-charge of air traffic control at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport, said, “We will take a tour of Bokaro Airport next week to assess the completion of work.”