No money, no food and 2,000km from home: a journey facing millions in India’s migrant worker humanitarian crisis

Off the dusty national highway that connects Mumbai to northern India, Rambhau Prasad Yadav, 52, sits on his haunches, waiting. It is early Thursday evening and his face mask is wet from sweat, the fabric so thin his lips are showing through.Yadav, a labourer in a gas utility company, is looking for ways to return to his hometown, 2,000km east in the state of Bihar.He has been waiting to do so for two months. At first, he was waiting for India’s lockdown, implemented in mid-March and now…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3085710/no-money-no-food-and-2000km-home-journey-facing-millions-indias