The Asian Age (TheAsianAgeNews) May 30, 2020 The policemen have told the migrants that soon they will be evicted out of the place as the shelter is used for marriage purposes and the increasing exasperation to go home is evident from their faces. COVID19Lockdown pic. For the past few days, the serving of milk for the infants at the camp is also stopped.Yesterday, four trains left for Bihar from Karnataka. Every day the policemen take our photos and the wait continues,” a sobbing Munir Ali from Assam explained. Since the bus was not available a person provided dinner and shelter for the night at a committee hall and we boarded the bus to Bengaluru. What we get daily is dry food at an irregular interval.When asked about the cases in Bihar where reports of several families not accepting the migrants back for the fear of transmission of COVID the district magistrate of Patna, Ravi Kumar said that migrants from places like Maharashtra, Surat, Bengaluru, Delhi, Ghaziabad and Gurugram will be kept at quarantine centers..His journey is more rigorous as after China cereal container for sale reaching Guwahati his family will have to walk further hundreds of kilometres to reach the village. At a lodge near the station, we paid Rs 100 per person to spend the night. We are filling some of the other forms daily but have not got any permission yet. Since lockdown began, we are out of jobs.

Life has come to a standstill for more than a thousand guestworkers from Odisha and Assam. We are not at all informed about the train schedules.On days when they run out of patience after consuming chappatis with one small pouch of the pickle, they go out of the camp to buy pickles. When the lockdown was announced the owner of the factory took a flight to leave the state and stopped the calls of the labourers.The situation for 42 stranded workers from Assam is grimmer. It has been 10 days nowhere, and we are given assurance that we will board a train.“The district magistrates of other districts may add to the list of cities based on the number of rising cases,” he stated. When we went to the railway station to look for the train an auto-rickshaw driver told us that migrants from Bihar have been kept at a shelter.After traversing hundreds of kilometres to reach Bengaluru, got a beating by the policemen, getting fleeced by auto-rickshaw drivers and lodges that charged them their entire savings all the guest workers get is the date of travel that never comes. Then we came here. We paid Rs 800 per person to reach the town. However, when the situation became adverse Rao had to ask his relatives in the village to lend him some money so that he could reach Bengaluru.

Getting disillusioned with the kind of food being served daily at irregular intervals women folks were seen preparing the food with the little raw materials they are left with. They are in anticipation of good news that they will finally be heading back to their homes.Shivaprasad Rao form Balaswar in Odisha was working at granite factory in Mysuru. The owner asked us to leave and never to come back.“We are here for six days now.“ I used to work at a coffee estate near Chikkamagaluru. A guest worker from Odisha, Anil Sahu speaks about the situation on ground. There is no arrangement for proper food. Over 50 of us are from Odisha itself,” Rao narrated his woes. Though they were told by the police that the train to Guwahati would leave on May 26 the wait is unending. At our workplaces, we were not paid for the last three months as lockdown happened and the owner never bothered about us. The grim faces watch the movement of cops carefully in anticipation of good news that they will finally be heading back to their homes.Bengaluru: Life has come to a standstill for more than a thousand guest workers from Odisha and Assam.

Megosztás a facebookon