Impact of covid-19 on migrant labourers from Madhepura, Bihar

Students enrolled in the M.A. Development programme at Azim Premji University (APU), Bangalore,  undertake a field project consisting of research, action-project or intervention in areas such as rural livelihoods, disability rights, agriculture and land rights, citizenship and identity, gender and sexuality. The project entails 30 weeks of research, fieldwork and analysis at the end of which the students present their findings and observations through posters and presentations.

This poster by Aryan Arya talks of the experiences of migrant workers hailing from four villages of Bihar's Madhepura district during the Covid-19 pandemic. The interviewed individuals had been working in different parts of Haryana and Gujarat and had to make their way back home after the announcement of the nation-wide lockdown. The poster focuses on the impacts of that sudden migration and the pandemic on people's finances, health and education.