A study by the National Human Rights Commission has concluded that migrant workers are treated as outsiders and second class citizens in their host states.
The study on the social security and health rights of migrant workers has been conducted in Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, all of which house a large number of workers from West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
The human rights body’s study has come at a time when India is witnessing the second wave of Covid-19 infections and there are reports of migrant workers beginning to return home from their places of work.
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