Lockdown forces labourers’ family to walk 600 km to reach home
   Date :29-Mar-2020

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Labourer Shayar Singh with his wife Mausami and son-in-law Maansingh.
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
Prime Minister Modi has appealed people of the country to remain in their houses for 21 days as it is the only way to combat Covid-19. But what if somebody doesn’t have his own house or if he is miles away from his house? This serious problem has erupted in front of a group of daily labourers who left their houses to earn livelihood.
 
A family belonging to Rajasthan came to Sehore to sell toys to earn two square meals. Shayar Singh, his wife Mausami, son-in-law Maansingh and daughter Jayanti, who has a five-month-old son with her were forced to get back to their village Dosa in Rajasthan on foot. Village Dosa is around 600 km from Sehore. Shayar Singh shared his ordeal with a few people in Sehore, telling about his family he said that they came to Sehore a couple of months back to earn money.
 
They sell toys to get two square meals and live under a bridge in the town. But due to coronavirus, things got changed, whole country is lockdown and now they are entrapped here miles away from their hometown. Now they have no way to earn money as the whole city is shutdown.