Thousands of migrant workers are leaving cities to walk thousands of kilometres to their home towns, after the government declared a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. This ...
A Delhi police personnel disperse homeless people waiting to collect food at a government-run Night Shelter at Yamuna Pushta near Nigambodh Ghat, during the second day of national lockdown ...
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Migrant workers and their families board a truck in Ahmedabad to return to their villages after India ordered a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spread of Covid-19, March 25, 2020.
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A huge rush of migrant workers who had been marching to their homes, seen at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal on day 4 of the nationwide lockdown.
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An aerial view of Lal Kuan bus stand where a wave of migrant workers was seen following Uttar Pradesh governments call to arrange buses for the workers returning to their native state, on D...
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People travel in a crowded bus to return to their cities and villages before the start of the lockdown by West Bengal state government to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-1...
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Migrant workers ask for eatables inside a bus to leave for their villages outside Allahabad bus station, during a Government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the ...
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Migrant workers seen crowded inside a bus bound to their native state at Kaushambi Roadways Bus Stand on Day 4 of the 21-day nationwide lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus, on March...
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Crowds of Indian migrant workers wait to board buses to return to their native villages as a nationwide lockdown continues to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) on March 28, 2020, in...
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Migrant workers try to board a goods truck bound to their native state during Day 4 of the 21 day nationwide lockdown, defeating the lockdown to enable social distancingat Lal Kuan bus stan...
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