COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that has put the entire world economy at a halt. The impact of COVID-19 has gone beyond public health to social and economic issues, especially for migrant workers. To tackle the spread of COVID-19 virus, as many other countries the Indian government has also implemented various lockdown measures which severely impacted migrants, whom lost their jobs due to shutting down of economic activities. Due to this economic slowdown, about 40 million migrant workers of the country are facing the major issues like lack of social security and health benefits, lack of portability of state-provided benefits and lack of social equality. The issue of having uncertainty about the future in the urban cities during total lockdown period led the migrant workers to travel to their hometowns. It is essential to explain the environment of social and economic uncertainty among these industrial workers during the pandemic situation and to bring the attention of the policy makers on the issues facing by the migrant industrial workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic situation.
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Neetu Jha (2021). Uncertainty among the migrants during the lockdown in India. International Review of Social Sciences Research, 1(2), 18- 33. https://doi.org/10.53378/346497
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