New Report: 21 Days and Counting- COVID-19 Lockdown, Migrant Workers and the Inadequacy of Welfare Measures in India by Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN @StrandedWorkers). Main findings below. Download here:
…https://covid19socialsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/lockdown_and_distress_report_by_stranded_workers_action_network-2.pdf

50% of workers had rations left for less than 1 day.
96% had not received rations from the government and 70% had not received any cooked food.
74% had less than half their daily wages remaining to survive for the rest of the lockdown period.

89% have not been paid by their employers at all during the lockdown.
44% of the calls received were “SOS” with no money or rations left or had skipped previous meal.

Rate of hunger is exceeding rate of relief. % people who said they have less than 1 day of rations increased from 36% to 50% in the third week of lockdown while the percentage of people who received government rations increased from 1% to only 4% in the third week of lockdown.

The percentage of people who did not get cooked food from the government or any local organisation decreased from 80% to about 70% from the end of second week post lockdown to the end of third week post lockdown