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. @anumayhem writes- Vishnu Prasad, migrant worker from UP: "I knew about a one-day closure, but within a day the govt said it would be a week-long instead. We needed to stock food, but at this rate, it will become difficult.” #FoodAndWagesBeforeLockdown https://thewire.in/labour/migrant-contract-workers-coronavirus-lockdown
Prasad notes food prices have skyrocketed during this lockdown. Atta prices have increased from 22/kilo to 26/kilo, potatoes increased from Rs 25/kilo to Rs 30/kilo, dal by Rs 12-15/kilo, and the shops are now only giving 3 eggs instead of 4 for Rs 20. #FoodAndWagesForMigrants
Prasad works at Wazirpur’s steel mills, where he is paid Rs 300/day, i.e. 8,000-9,000 monthly, half of the state’s minimum wage of Rs 17,991 for skilled work. Labor security measures like PF, ESI and so on do not apply on many like him. #FoodAndWagesForMigrants
Another narrative from @IndiaSpend: Husseni and the group sat for two days under the open sky without food or water. “Our kids have turned pale with hunger, but no one is bothering about us,” says Husseni. #FoodAndWagesForMigrants https://www.indiaspend.com/covid-19-intra-state-migrants-marooned-too/
Villagers did not allow them into local shops, fearing they had been infected with COVID-19. “I am so hungry, but they are not even allowing us to buy a packet of biscuits,” said eight-year-old Najma (uses only one name), weeping.
#FoodAndWagesForMigrants
#FoodAndWagesForMigrants
"They have threatened to drive us out of the farm if anyone tests positive in the village,” Venkanna, another migrant worker, told @IndiaSpend.
#FoodAndWagesForMigrants
#FoodAndWagesForMigrants
A brutal Marie Antoinette moment in the Supreme Court: https://twitter.com/write2kill/status/1247897825230249986?s=20
. @roadscholarz notes that to question the #FoodAndWagesForMigrants for migrants is atrociously unfair, and need we say extremely socially unjust! https://twitter.com/roadscholarz/status/1247905759322497026?s=20
