Impact of Reverse Migration on Labours in India during COVID-19

The pandemic Covid-19 today has affected the whole world. India did not stand exception to it by standing in world-Covid list in top three most affected nations. Covid-19 has brought governments and their policies under sever scrutiny and criticism in the whole world. Indian government is also trying to deal with this pandemic but given a huge population size, uneven resources management by different states and bad condition of health system and economy has certainly deepened the crisis. The issues of social safety, reverse migration and other such factors have further grimed the situation. Indian migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic have faced multiple hardships. With factories and workplaces shut down due to the lockdown imposed in the country, millions of migrant workers had to deal with the loss of income, food shortages and uncertainty about their future. During the lockdown period, thousands of migrants started walking back home, with no means of transport. In response, the Central and State Governments took various measures to help them, and later arranged of transportation. After five months of Covid-19 in India, Indian government is still struggling hard to cope up with health and economy. This paper is an attempt to understand the impact of reverse migrant crisis during Covid-19 in India. The current flow of reverse migration in India, which is from urban to rural, however, falls into none of the above categories describing the usual patterns in the movements from rural to urban centers