ABSTRACT
Sagram Tudu is from Malda’s Gajol area. Sagram Tudu, Haren Murmu, Samrat Biswas and other workers from Malda are living as a group there. The company’s staffs are regularly coming to the construction site and taking a measure of their body temperature. The sheer desperation made them take up the journey on foot, without knowing that millions of other migrant workers were also on the roads across the country in a desperate bid to reach their homes and were clogging the highways in the process. The workers, who had a very bad experience at the hands of the Aurangabad police, were in for a surprise later when after walking 25 kilometre along G.T. Road, they were stopped by some policemen in the evening. In recent years, Kerala has become a favourite destination for migrant workers from West Bengal. The wages are good, the mason gets minimum Rs. 750 per day, and the helper gets Rs. 470.
