Covid impact: Women workforce disappearing, most affected in urban India
In the
video, the woman lies dead, her body laid out on the railway platform at
Muzaffarpur, Bihar. A toddler, presumably the woman's, plays by her side,
tugging at the sheet that covers her.
For
weeks, a grim nation had watched migrant workers struggle to return home after
they found themselves stranded in urban India with no means of survival, due to
the abrupt imposition of the strict nationwide lockdown on March 24.
Transportation services were suspended until, on May 1, Indian Railways began
operating special 'Shramik' trains for stranded migrant workers.
On May
23, Arvina Khatoon, the woman on the railway platform, and her family had
boarded one such train in Ahmedabad. Early media reports suggested she
subsequently died of hunger and dehydration. East Central Railways claimed
Khatoon was already ill when she boarded the train. Read More
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