With a hope: Construction employees awaiting work at Benz Circle in Vijayawada.|Image Credit: KVS Giri
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Economy is opening up and situation is healthy, he says.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Thursday told the Supreme Court that migrant employees were returning to cities to recover their old jobs as “lockdown is over”, “economy is opening up” and the scenario is turning “really healthy”.
Mr. Mehta, who was standing for the Maharashtra federal government, was expressing his view on what the Bihar government called the “reverse migration” of migrant workers who had actually gone home to their towns throughout the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Senior supporter Ranjit Kumar, for Bihar, stated trains from Patna were running complete. “Reverse migration is happening. Now the employees are returning to their own jobs. Trains are complete from Patna,” the Bihar federal government stated.
At this moment, Mr. Mehta stated, “What I feel about this is migrant workers