00:00The world and indeed India, we bring you ground realities
00:03because nowhere is this impact now being felt quite like on migrant workers.
00:08Quite similar to what happened during COVID.
00:10An acute LPG crisis is forcing many to quit their jobs and return home
00:15as fuel becomes unaffordable and daily work dries up.
00:20From packed trains in Gaia to overcrowded coaches in Chandoli,
00:23the story is the same.
00:25Take a look at the costs of war.
00:38The impact of the West Asia war is now hitting home
00:42and hardest on India's migrant workforce.
00:52LPG crisis is forcing thousands to abandon jobs and return to their villages.
01:02Visuals from Gaia Junction tell the story.
01:04Packed trains, tired faces, a surge of returning workers.
01:22Labourers from Delhi and Surat are heading back home
01:25as an acute LPG shortage disrupts daily life and livelihoods
01:30with factories slowing down, shifts being cut and wages falling.
01:55The same story repeats at Pandit Deen Dayalupadhyay Junction in Chandoli.
02:01Overcrowded coaches, workers returning from Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat.
02:24For many, it is an impossible choice.
02:27Pay for fuel or feed the family.
02:40A war thousands of kilometers away now dictating whether a worker can cook a meal or keep a job.
02:50With Pankash Kumar in Gaya and Uday Gupta in Chandoli, Bureau Report, India Today.
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