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Migrants get desperate as lockdown extension looms

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NEW DELHI : On the evening of 7 April, 26-year-old Vivekananda Sharma finally broke down. For three days his family had survived on tiny portions of food.

Early morning every day, Sharma would queue up for hours for a meal of lemon rice distributed in a nearby bus terminus. On that day, Sharma’s four-month-old daughter had had nothing but water; his wife was too hungry to breastfeed the child and they had no money to buy milk. “The circumstances forced me to beg for food for the first time in life...if the lockdown is lifted, we can return to my village.

We can live on salt and roti," said Sharma, a migrant worker from Jharkhand living on the outskirts of Bengaluru city in Karnataka.

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