With no money or work in Bengaluru due to the lockdown, over 250 buses with at least 5,000 labourers have so far left the city in the hope of finding some job back home BENGALURU : Migrant labourers returning back to their villages from cash-dry Bengaluru in the hope of finding jobs in agriculture are likely to add to the challenges of the state and the district administration, politicians and analysts say.
With no money or work in Bengaluru due to the lockdown, over 250 buses with at least 5000 labourers have so far left the city in the hope of finding some job back home since farming is exempted in the state. “We want to just go home since there is no clarity on when this lockdown will end," Thipanna, a daily wage labourer from Raichur