Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Scores of migrant labourers, facing joblessness due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the harsh spell of monsoon rain in parts of north India, are returning to Jammu and Kashmir. Over 35,000 brick kiln labourers have already come back to the Valley to revive the moribund brick manufacturing industry, according to the official figures. Even as large parts of the Valley are under a stringent lockdown due to the rising graph of COVID-19 cases, Shalipora and Ompora areas in central Kashmir?s Budgam district are abuzz with migrant labourers for the first time in 11 months.
