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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Elucidate the main problems and challenges faced by the migrant labourers in the recent ‘Lockdown period’.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Works and Economic Life

The nationwide lockdown from 25 March 2020 turned India's circular migrants into the most visible casualties of the pandemic. The Labour Ministry told Parliament in September 2020 that over 1.04 crore migrant workers had returned to their home states. The crisis did not create a new vulnerability. It exposed one that Jan Breman had long…

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  • Economic problems
  • Problems of entitlement and citizenship
  • Mobility, safety and health
  • Social and psychological strain
  • Challenges after return
  • State and judicial response
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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