“Better to die of Coronavirus than of hunger”: UP workers returning back to work

As India continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic and flagging economic growth, several of Uttar Pradesh’s 30 lakh plus migrants workers who returned during the lockdown are going back to work.

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At the government bus stand in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria, 50 km from the railway junction in Gorakhpur that has trains to Maharashtra, Gujarat and elsewhere, Diwakar Prasad and Khursheed Ansari are both boarding buses for Gorakhpur.

Mr Ansari is a factory worker in Mumbai and says his large tailoring unit is still shut and that he returned home just a month ago.

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“If there was employment in UP, I would not return . My company has not started yet but I am returning to find whatever work I can. Corona is better than hunger. It is better for me to die rather than my children to die of coronavirus,” Mr Ansari told NDTV before boarding the bus.

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Mr Prasad, a technician in a Kolkata firm, had come home for Holi but got stuck in UP due to the lockdown. His firm has reopened and he says he is returning to Kolkata to help his family of five children and his wife. “I am scared but I am also scared to live here. How will I eat and feed my family?” said Mr Prasad.

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