"Hungry, desperate: India virus controls trap its migrant workers", 2 April 2020

Many of India's estimated 100 million internal migrant workers are trapped in cities far from home after being laid off due to government measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, leading aid agencies to warn of a looming crisis...

According to the Indian government's 2016-17 Economic Survey, internal migrants make up about 20 percent of the workforce...

With most transport links shut down, many have been trying to walk the hundreds of kilometres back to their rural homes to ride out the crisis with their families...