Fearing lockdown, migrants start leaving Delhi

April 13, 2021 11:15

Amidst the rising number of COVID cases in the national capital, some of the migrant workers have started returning to their native places in fear of imposition of lockdown.

Some alone, with backpacks, while some with their families, migrant workers can be seen leaving for their home at ISBT, Anand Vihar and other key transit points in the city.

With increasing COVID numbers the fear of imposition of lockdown has been making migrant workers anxious.

Gouri Shankar Sharma, who hails from Lucknow said, "The way COVID numbers are rising, there are chances of lockdown. There is no work. So I am leaving."

"The current situation, pushing Delhi towards another lockdown. I have no choice. I am leaving for home," Sunil Gupta, a migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly said.

"The leaders do not have any problem. They travel in air-conditioned cars. If lockdown is imposed, the transportation will be closed. So I am leaving now," a migrant worker who was heading for Kanauj in Uttar Pradesh said.

"The rate at which the cases are rising makes it obvious that lockdown would be imposed. That is why I am going home," a labourer said.

The country had last year witnessed a major movement of migrants labourers and workers after the imposition of a nationwide lockdown in the last week of March.

The nationwide lockdown resulted in an exodus of migrant workers from cities to their native places.

Delhi reported 11,491 new COVID-19 cases and 72 related deaths on Monday.

This is Delhi's highest single-day spike since the start of the pandemic.

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