Migrant employees board a truck to return to their hometowns after the federal government eased a nationwide lockdown, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Could 16, 2020.
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The pandemic-triggered reverse migration from cities can have an effect on the nerve centres of the economic system. An energetic inhabitants with a excessive marginal propensity to eat has been rendered jobless, and it’ll have a chronic affect on the economic system.
India doesn’t dwell in its cities however in its villages — Mahatma Gandhi. No one has maybe emphasised the significance of empowering India’s villages to assist them obtain ‘swaraj’ as a lot as the daddy of our nation. However greater than seven many years since he breathed his final, India stays a far cry from a rustic of robust, self-reliant village republic that the Mahatma envisioned. The gaping rural-urban divide was on full show when Mumbai’s
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