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Punjab’s Migration Crisis Under Lockdown and Beyond: Some Suggestion for Public Policy

In: Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development

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  • Lakhwinder Singh

    (Khalsa College, Punjabi University)

Abstract

Recently, the spread of COVID-19 pandemic has generated high degree of uncertainty of both survival and employment. The stringent lockdown and continuous spread of COVID-19 infection halted economic activities and resulted unemployment. Due to non-payment of wages, the migrant workers came under immediate stress and in the absence of transport facilities walking back home. As government realized the situation and arranged the special trains, there were 5 lakh workers from Punjab registered to travel back to their native places. This chapter has examined on the basis of extensive field survey, the working and living conditions of the migrant workers who come from rural to urban areas from within Punjab and other states. In addition to that, the author has also examined the factors that determine the upward mobility. The author suggested that the state government has to follow new policy perspective to improve upon the working and living conditions that covers both normal and shock times.

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  • Lakhwinder Singh, 2021. "Punjab’s Migration Crisis Under Lockdown and Beyond: Some Suggestion for Public Policy," Springer Books, in: Sukhpal Singh & Lakhwinder Singh & Kamal Vatta (ed.), Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development, pages 223-235, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-4442-9_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4442-9_18
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