Lucknow has gone through a lot of changes in past few decades. What role do you think migration has played in making Lucknow an emerging urban center? *
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Explainspeaking: What 2020 taught us about India’s internal migration
If one imagines all of India’s internal migrants as one nation then not only would that nation be the third-largest country on the planet — that is, after China and India — but also, it would be roughly double the size of the fourth-largest nation on the planet — the United States
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Written By Udit Misra , Edited By Explained Desk | New Delhi |
Updated: February 18, 2021 2:39:00 pm
Migrants rush to get inside a transport to reach their hometown in Uttar Pradesh (Express photo/Praveen Khanna)
Dear Readers,
It is almost a year since the Covid-induced nationwide lockdowns were announced in India. It may not be an exaggeration to state that the distressing images of migrant workers walking back to their homes — often hungry and utterly hassled, often with small children in tow — with little support from the government is the most enduring memory of that period. The displacement of people has been described as the second-largest since the Partition of the country.