Migrant Labor Pre & Post COVID-19

Migrant’s workers are the engine of growth from centuries which have been working day and night for the economic success of any region across the globe. On the other side they are the most vulnerable and have no access to any kind of social security. The forced reverse migration from urban to rural areas will have a significant impact on the demography society and economy of rural India. Most of the migrant workers were marginal farmers in the past which left agriculture and moved to urban areas for better economic opportunities. The forced reverse migration amid agrarian crisis poses a big threat on people to fall into abject poverty. Evidence indicates that as many as 140 million of India’s rural poor migrate seasonally to cities industries and farms in search of work. These are migrants who move back and forth undertaking a vast array of casual work in construction manufacturing services and farm sector. They are part of India’s unorganized informal workforce estimated over 350 million that remains excluded from services and rights as workers and citizens in their rural homes and in their places of work in urban industrial and rural areas.