 Punjab’s Migration Crisis Under Lockdown and Beyond: Some Suggestion for Public PolicyA chapter in Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development, 2021, pp 223-235 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Recently, the spread of COVID-19 pandemic has generated high degree of uncertainty of both survival and employment. The stringent lockdown and continuous spread of COVID-19 infection halted economic activities and resulted unemployment. Due to non-payment of wages, the migrant workers came under immediate stress and in the absence of transport facilities walking back home. As government realized the situation and arranged the special trains, there were 5 lakh workers from Punjab registered to travel back to their native places. This chapter has examined on the basis of extensive field survey, the working and living conditions of the migrant workers who come from rural to urban areas from within Punjab and other states. In addition to that, the author has also examined the factors that determine the upward mobility. The author suggested that the state government has to follow new policy perspective to improve upon the working and living conditions that covers both normal and shock times. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Internal migration; Public policy; Punjab (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-4442-9_18 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4442-9_18 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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