The accident in Aurangabad has brought to light the sorry state of migrant workers in India Early Friday morning a freight train mowed down 16 migrants resting on a rail track outside Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
The migrants, frustrated with their inability to procure transport to take them to their homes in Madhya Pradesh, were walking—and not only did the rail track provide the shortest route, it also helped them evade the police barriers to prevent interstate crossovers.
This march of migrants was not an isolated case; instead it is something that has been playing out again and again throughout the period of the lockdown.