People
from every corner of the country are returning to their home state due to the
ongoing captivity throughout the country during Corona virus infection. This
includes a large number of daily wage laborers of Bihar.
According to an estimate, 20
lakh daily wage laborers live in different states of Bihar alone. Now
these people have started migrating to their home state.
Madhav Anand, national
general secretary of RLSP believes Bihar's economic situation has worsened due
to the closure. Industries are very less in Bihar. About 80 percent
of the people still depend on farming. Looking at the current situation of
the country, it has been estimated that for at least one year, daily wage
workers will not return to work. In such a situation, creating employment
for them will be a big challenge for the Bihar government. In such a
situation, they believe that the Center should give a special package of one
and a half lakh crores to the Government of Bihar.
According to Madhav Anand,
nearly 3 lakh people have reached Bihar so far and around 15 to 20 lakh daily
wage laborers of the state are still stranded in other states of the country. Later,
these people can return to Bihar. In such a situation, it will be a big
challenge to provide livelihood in the state.
He told that according to
various state governments, there are one lakh 20 thousand workers of Bihar in
Punjab. One lakh 40 thousand in Haryana, 1 lakh 26 thousand in Gujarat, 64
thousand in Uttar Pradesh, 2 lakh 60 thousand in Maharashtra, 98 thousand in
Tamil Nadu, 40 thousand in Kerala, 61 thousand in Karnataka, 75 thousand in
Rajasthan and two in Delhi. One lakh 40 thousand migrants live in Bihar. He
said that this figure is only for registered migrant wages, whereas more than
these figures are trapped in different states who want to come back.
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