Letter to BS: Govt should set up an exclusive fund for migrant labourers

The sight of thousands of migrant workers, with families in tow, walking back to their villages from Delhi is distressing. Despite the government’s promise of food, these poor labourers were compelled to undertake the arduous journey to reach the relative safety of their native places. In India, the whole system of governance has been hijacked by the rich and the well-to-do middle class. A typical example is a recent announcement by the Centre and the Rajasthan government to release the dearness allowances for their employees. These employees, who will anyway get paid for the period of the lockdown, are priority