Covid-19: On-site construction labourers turn weary of Mumbai’s lockdown

Mumbai, one of India’s top employment generators, has started to worry about the labour shortage, with companies saying workers want to return home.

Several on-site labourers in the city want to take special trains being run to transport workers back home. The rising number of Covid-19 cases in the city has caused anxiety among them. While some wish to return to their families, others need to reach to their farms before the sowing season. Labourers go back in summers because it is wedding season and also a helping hand is needed to till the family land in villages.

“Following the government’s recent decision to permit the migrant workers to travel to their home states, there has been a rush of applications from the migrant workers who want to take the special trains to their home state.