New Delhi: The Centre has extended the nationwide lockdown, put in to contain the Covid-19 outbreak, by two more weeks. It was set to end this Sunday but now it has been pushed to May 17 but the workers despite assurances to be brought back by trains are going restless and are still making a move.
The migrant workers seems to be already at the brink of their patience and are trying whatever means they could to give the cops in the Capital a slip and reach their families in Uttar Pradesh or Bihar. Its seems neither the Delhi Police magic shows nor the movie shows in the cluster colonies could hold them back from making an attempt to move out of Delhi.
In a week more than hundred workers were either sent back to their places in the capital or were sent to nearby shelter homes after the vehicles they were using for transportation were seized and their drivers arrested.
Ten labourers ventured from AIIMS, nine labourers from Malviya Nagar, twelve from Defence colony, four labourers from Saket, fifteen from Fatehpur Beri were intercepted by Delhi Police and sent to various shelter
homes. Earlier in South Delhi and Shahdara a total of 90 migrant labourers tried to sneak out of the capital but were intercepted. Nine labourers with 5 children coming from Palam and going to Chhatar Pur district in Madhya Pradesh were intercepted near Qutub metro station.
All have been shifted to shelter home.
It appears that 'Uncertainty' and 'No work' are two major factors together with 'restlessness' of the family
back home which is again becoming a reason for the migrants to try to move of of the Capital.