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Migrant workers in India are hungry, helpless and ignored

As Covid-19 has shut the country down, its millions of migrant workers aren’t even eligible for a handout to buy much-needed food

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Dayaram Kushwaha and Gyanvati, migrant workers who returned home from New Delhi, play with their sons Mangal and Shivam as they take a break from harvesting wheat, during the nationwide lockdown in India to slow the spread of the coronavirus, in Jugyai village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, India, April 8 2020. Picture: REUTERS/DANISH SIDDIQUI
Dayaram Kushwaha and Gyanvati, migrant workers who returned home from New Delhi, play with their sons Mangal and Shivam as they take a break from harvesting wheat, during the nationwide lockdown in India to slow the spread of the coronavirus, in Jugyai village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, India, April 8 2020. Picture: REUTERS/DANISH SIDDIQUI

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