ERNAKULAM: Kerala has a history of fighting against the odds and coming out smiling. It did so at the time of the devastating floods, during the Nipah virus outbreak, then the coronavirus pandemic, and it is doing it again now - tackling the migrant workers' crisis amid the covid-19 lockdown.

At a time when images of migrant workers desperately trying to return home play out across the country, only 1.6% of the estimated 2.5 million such labourers in Kerala have made way back to their hometowns.

Some estimates peg the migrant worker population in Kerala at over 3 million. Be that as it may, the figure underscores the state's deft handling of the crisis and is indicative of how the local authorities have been taking care of this vulnerable

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