When the lockdown began to ease in June, migrant workers who had left Ahmedabad for their villages started returning to the city in the hope of finding some employment.
It hasn’t been easy. Industrial areas haven’t opened up fully and employers are going slow on taking on workers. Sunk in debt with insecure work, hunger now stalks migrant workers.
Entire families have been living out in the open on worksites. The city, a hub of industrial and commercial activity, has about 1.3 million migrant workers, one-sixth its population. Most of them are from the. . .