Since we started, most migrant workers have stayed back instead of leaving
After finding out that around 350 families didn’t have enough rations for more than three days, we consulted them. Following this, everyone at the police station pooled in their money and bought food bags. This happened immediately after the lockdown was announced. At our station, we knew a few safai karamcharis and manual labourers who did odd jobs for us but were living hand to mouth. While I was getting those bags distributed, they found out that rations were being collected for the underprivileged at the station. Soon, the news spread and more people began to arrive,” says SHO Arvind Kumar, in a conversation with The Better India.