{"id":1241,"date":"2020-05-19T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telugoos.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2021-08-05T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T06:53:53","slug":"migrant-workers-on-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/19\/migrant-workers-on-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Are They Not Children of Mother India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In<\/span> India, ever since the central government announced lockdown from 24th March, public transport came to standstill within and out of the states. Migrant laborers started facing do- or- die conditions, as their livelihood was at stake. It was so painful for them, because they didn\u2019t have either savings to meet their ends or jobs to earn a little more.<\/p>\n<p>With no other choice, they ventured to walk even more than 1,000 miles to reach their home towns. \u00a0Being poor migrant laborers, they were deprived of food and \u00a0\u00a0sleep during travel on foot.<\/p>\n<p>They had to sleeping on roadsides without blankets or anything to protect them from fog or rain. \u00a0Adding insult to injury, police would stop at state and district boarders, question and beat them. Some have died of hunger in the middle of their journey.<\/p>\n<p>As many videos on the plight of these unfortunate citizens went viral, the central government arranged transport facilities to make them reach their hometowns. \u00a0A few could use these facilities, while many are still found as pedestrians on highways. What has happened to the constitutional guarantees of equality? What mistakes have they done to face this kind of trouble? \u00a0Is being poor a crime? Is migration for making a living a crime? Let\u2019s hope for real sunshine in their homecoming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priyanka Chowdhury<\/strong>\u00a0, Student, Internship Wing,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apcj.in\">AP College of Journalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, ever since the central government announced lockdown from 24th March, public transport came to standstill within and out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[338,342,343,344],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-covid-19","tag-migrant-workers","tag-sleeping-on-roads","tag-starvation-deaths"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/migrant-workers.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18275,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/18275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}