Migrant workers who had left the Capital as it went under the Covid lockdown have started returning as Delhi began to unlock on Monday. Visuals from inter-state bus terminal at Anand Vihar showed migrant workers returning to the Capital.
Over eight lakh migrant workers had left the national capital in the first four weeks of the lockdown imposed in April to contain the spread of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic this year.
According to a report from the Delhi Transport Department between April 19 and May 14, a total of 8,07,032 migrant workers left Delhi for their home states in buses, out of which 3,79,604 left during the first week of the lockdown itself.