Workers ready to take risk, save money to head home

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By Times of India – Workers ready to take risk, save money to head home Gurgaon: Over the past few days, Rakesh Singh has made innumerable calls to union leaders, pleading with them to devise ways so that he and his family can head back home. Not a single penny he has spent of the Rs 2,000 he received as aid from an NGO. The 42-year-old migrant worker hopes to put the money to use the day he finds an opportunity to go to his native village in Kanpur Dehat district. Like Rakesh, many daily-wage labourers have been saving up on whatever aid they have received from organisations in the hope of heading back home. “I’m saving up so that I have money to go back home. I just need to reach the UP border somehow. Once I am in my native state, there is no need to worry, I’ll manage somehow. Let the cops catch me, but I want to go home,” said Rakesh. On Saturday, the UP government started the process of ferrying around 12,000 workers from Haryana in phases. This apart, the Gurgaon administration has also decided to send back 643 daily wagers who were apprehended on their way home on foot. Nineteen buses will leave the city on Sunday morning, ferrying these workers to UP, Uttarakhand and Punjab. Urmila (35), who is from Gorakhpur, is reaching out to anybody who has a commercial goods vehicle. She is willing to give all of the Rs 2,000 she has received as aid to whoever helps her reach the UP border. According to social scientists, many of these labourers who have already gone back home are unlikely to return anytime soon, even if the lockdown is eased. “The workers are anguished and deeply disenchanted with this city,” pointed out labour rights activist Shyamvir. DownloadThe Times of India News App for Latest City NewsSubscribeStart Your Daily Mornings with Times of India Newspaper! Order Now

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