Chanpatia (Bihar): When the Covid lockdown brought India to a halt in 2020, thousands of migrant workers from Bihar were forced to return home - jobless, anxious, and uncertain about their future. The entire country witnessed those heartbreaking scenes of daily wage workers and labourers in desperate attempts to reach their homes walking thousands of miles if they did not get any mode to reach the place they call - home. These workers were both skilled and semi-skilled and despite that they had no other option, but to leave the cities as they were mostly on hand-to-mouth mode of livelihood. For a state like Bihar, where migration to cities like Surat, Ludhiana, and Delhi had long been a way of life, the reverse flow of workers presented an unprecedented challenge of ensuring a livelihood t

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