Similar trends were observed across surveys conducted by the Rapid Community Response to Covid-19 and by Action Aid.
As per a survey conducted by Inferential Survey Statistics and Research Foundation, more than 67 per cent of the migrants wanted to come back to the towns and cities where they had worked. With most of the workers now left with no earnings and jobs, many of them wanted to return back to the cities months after the lockdown.
Thereby, taking into consideration the 2020 UN population estimates to the above proportion, the International Labor Organization (ILO) suggested that the lockdown put between 364 million and 473 million workers at risk of being adversely affected. This includes a further 13.7 per cent in regular but unprotected jobs. While India doesn’t have data on the labor force population in the period of Q4 2019 to Q2 2020, the PLFS 2017–2018 estimated that 77.1 per cent of employment in India is non-regular-either self-employed or casual workers. This mass exodus has caused a labor shortage in organizations across India. Skilling, Labour, Talent for MSMEs: Due to the lockdown and the ongoing pandemic, millions of India’s labor force migrated back to their hometowns and villages.
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