The migrant tragedy continues to unfold on India’s highways and railway tracks as the lockdown approaches the 50th day. In spite of the letter-writing skills of Union home minister Amit Shah, who had last week reminded the Bengal government of the need to expedite the return of the workers and declared that he was working late nights, the plight of the migrants has remained unabated. The migrant torment, which began abruptly when Prime Minister Narendra Modi activated the shutdown with a four-hour notice in the fourth week of March, has come to symbolise how badly the lockdown was planned and sprung on the country by the Centre. Pictures from Monday and Tuesday capture some of the scenes that are playing themselves out over and over without break over the past one and a half months
Migrants from Mumbai travel on a truck to their home states.
(PTI)Migrants travel in a truck in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, on Monday.
(PTI)Migrants on a truck in Thane on Monday.
(PTI)Migrants from Mumbai board a truck at Chakghat border to return to their homes in Madhya Pradesh on Monday.
(PTI)Migrants in a loaded trailer in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday.
(PTI)A migrant worker walks along a road near Akshardham Temple in New Delhi on his way to his home on Tuesday.
(PTI)A girl takes a break in Noida on Tuesday.
Prem SinghA child on his shoulders, a migrant and others walk in Delhi towards Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
(PTI)Migrants atop a truck on the Mumbai-Nashik highway on Monday.
(PTI)A migrant family and their belongings in a rickshaw at Vikas Marg in New Delhi on Monday.
(PTI)Migrant workers walk on rail tracks towards a railway station in Ahmedabad on Monday but were turned away as no train was scheduled to their state that day.
(AP)Migrants on their way back to Uttar Pradesh from Maharashtra rest at a market along a highway in Bhopal on Tuesday.
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