Social Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Migration of Migrant Workers of Unorganized Sectors in India

This study aimed to examine the impact of COVID-19 lockdown in India on migration, economic challenges and sufferings faced by migrant workers of unorganized sectors of Indian economy and also the socio-economic challenges, political nexus; administration of food, water, and medicine supplies, arrangements of medical centres, transportation, and law measures extended during the lockdown period by the Union Government of India, Indian state governments and the local governments. Lockdown in India forced the entire Indian economy to standstill. No job, no food, no water, under this lockdown,compelled multiple hardships, mental agony, stress & physical strain, forced migrant workers & their families of unorganized sectors to head back to their native places (K. K. Bhandarkar, 2020). Research Problem:COVID-19 lockdown in India standstill the Indian economy and forced daily wage migrant workers of unorganized sectors to face socio-economic challenges, no earnings, no water, food and shelter to stay and no means of transportation to reach their respective native places. Research Question: How severe were the socio-economic challenges faced by the stranded daily wage migrant workers of unorganized sectors?