IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MIGRANTS' WORKERS IN INDIA

India has been lockdown since March 25,2020 due to covid-19 pandemic. When the government of India announced the sudden lockdown in March to contain the spread of the pandemic, the migrants without job and money have no other option to sustain in the host city except coming back to their native place. Thousands of migrants were forced to walked hundreds of miles back to their home villages through the stony railway track and streets. This desperate movement of huge number of migrants in the pandemic situation has created a bigger challenge for the country to address the life and livelihood issues simultaneously with a limited resource and infrastructure facilities. The increasing trend of COVID-19 and it prolong nature has posed challenge for the India Government to contain it and revive the economy at the earliest.