Nepal’s Migrant Workers Are Returning En Masse From India Amid COVID: Is Nepal Prepared For Reverse Migration and COVID Crises? | OPINION
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When India announced the first COVID-19 lockdown, people started marching to their homes by any means of transportation, even walking miles. In this manner, hundreds and thousands of Nepali citizens/workers living in India gathered at the India-Nepal borders protesting and sloganeering that “Nepali Nagrik lai firta leyu” – “Nepal, take your citizens back.” But by then, borders had been closed down and only essential services were allowed to pass through, leaving all these workers stuck at the border.