MUMBAI – Migrant workers are swarming rail stations in India's financial capital Mumbai to go to their home villages as virus-control measures dry up work in the hard-hit region. “What do I do now?" asked Ramzan Ali, who'd been earning up to 500 rupees ($7) per day as a laborer but has been out of work for two weeks.
He arrived at Kurla railroad station on Friday morning and joined a long line to buy a ticket to board a train for Balrampur, his village in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
Ali, 47, hopes to find some work in the village to feed his wife and four children. The government of Maharashtra state imposed lockdown-like curbs on Wednesday for 15 days to check the spread of the virus.