New Delhi: Casual labourers and their families poured out of metro cities across the nation for the third day on Monday, prompting at least the Delhi government to offer wages and rent-free accommodation to plug the spread of the new coronavirus.
The unprecedented movement of the poor in the wake of a three-week national lockdown continued undeterred by the sealing of state borders.
But the misery of their often hundreds of kilometres long trudge to their home towns and villages was eased by authorities who erected makeshift shelters.
In the national capital, police surveilled the moving mass by drones, and officers on patrol said they were trying to persuade migrants to remain in one place. “We are trying to educate people to the best