News of the extension of the ongoing nation-wide lockdown has brought thousands of migrant labourers to Ramlila Maidan in Ghaziabad to register for the Shramik Special trains departing for various parts of Uttar Pradesh. Visuals from the ground show labourers jostling, pushing each other to get to the officials who are registering names for the Shramik Special trains. Policemen are resorting to pushing away workers who are crowding around officials taking down names. The nation-wide lockdown which was imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from March 24 has seen jobs dry up of lakhs of daily-wage labourers across India. These workers who migrate across the country to work in factories located in Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala have been forced to resort to desperate measures – even walking hundreds of kilometers to reach their home states to avoid homelessness and starvation in the states where they were employed.