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First, a lockdown is announced with a 4 hour notice period and without any preparations for the massive job losses for daily wagers/ casual labourers, which most migrant workers are in many Indian cities. (1/n)
Then, when workers ran out of jobs, essentials, social nets, they couldn't avail transport services to go back to their native places which offered them atleast a semblance of a social net as transport was shut down. Some buses were started and then they were shut. (2/n)
Then workers were asked to avail facilities provided by State governments where food and shelter were to be given to them. Data showed that except for Kerala & Delhi (to some extent), other States couldn't set this up sufficiently for such people. (3/n)
