Why migrants are still on verge of deaths?

Do migrant workers matter? It’s been more than two months since we’re all staying at home following the lockdown rules, chilling, spending time with family, cooking, and working from home.

We all are definitely grateful for the things we have right now. I just want to say a few things, they’ve been in my mind for quite some time and I feel the need to put it down in words. It’s also because of the guilt of not being helpful enough to mankind. I came across many articles and posts on how the migrant workers are walking back to their native places because of how they do not have any means of living in the cities due to the lockdown. As much as I support the lockdown, I can’t help but think about the ways our government could’ve helped our people who are less fortunate and who depend on daily wages for their survival. The government could’ve promised them financial support, could’ve promised them enough food, medical help, and basic things a migrant worker is now struggling for. But they’ve certainly failed to do so!This morning I read an article on Time of India which was headlined “malnourished migrant mother struggles to breastfeed her babies” now these are the people that mostly depend on their daily wages by working anywhere they possibly could earn meager amount to do nothing but have three meals a day. These people don’t have high standards; they don’t care about being affected by the virus which is one of the reasons why they’ve started walking back to their hometowns even though it meant walking thousands of kilometers.

India deployed commercial flights, naval ships, and military planes at the beginning of this month to bring back people from across the globe. Why didn’t they think of the struggling workers that are walking back to their places, from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh, from Andhra Pradesh to Bihar, from Delhi to Madhya Pradesh? Is the government not aware enough of the situation of these workers or are they just ignorant? When our government can plan the world’s largest evacuation to bring back Indians to the homeland from across the world why couldn’t they plan a road transport facility for the poor that are walking back to their native?

Maybe because we can’t get rid of slavery because the economy will collapse! We cannot have enough working hours per day because the economy will collapse! What! The migrant workers want some provisions? Don’t they know the economy will collapse?