Ride or Die: Rickshaw-pullers kick their heels in the midst of lockdown limitations in West Bengal: 

A decent day would get us Rs 500-600, however now making Rs 50 is a major errand,' says Vinod. 

He adds there is no reason for getting back to his town in Jharkhand as there are no open positions there. 

In a rehash of a year ago, every day bets are relinquishing their city tasks to escape lockdown limitations. 

West Bengal government's choice to force lockdown-like limitations from May 15-30 ( further extend 15^th June) experiences spelt difficulty for day by day bets in the state. Hand-cart pullers, whose job relies upon shipping individuals back and forth routinely, are confronting a monetary emergency. 

"A decent day would bring us Rs 500-600, however now making Rs 50 is a major assignment. On the off chance that individuals don't come out, how accomplish we work and bring in cash,"  

Vinod, who showed up in the 'city of happiness' almost thirty years prior, hails from Jharkhand yet said that he can't return to his local spot as he feels there is not a single work in sight there. The sole provider of his family, the uneasiness about how he will continue to go should the purported lockdown be broadened, poses a potential threat over him. 

"No point returning to my town in Jharkhand as I realize that I will not look for some kind of employment there. I need to remain here and feed my family in Kolkata. Nonetheless, I don't have a clue how I will get by in Kolkata if the lockdown extends on. I have a group of five; two are kids who are contemplating," he related. 

With no place to get back to and the probability of a delayed state-wide lockdown, the endurance of every day bets like Vinod remains in a precarious situation.

A year ago in March, metropolitan focuses saw a mass migration of transient specialists, the majority of them every day wage workers, following the Center's call to force a severe lockdown to check the spread of Covid-19. These specialists began streaming back to the urban communities during the time of staged Unlock in the last 50% of 2020, for the most part because of the absence of business openings in their towns. Nonetheless, with the resurgence of Covid in April 2021, day by day bets are again escaping back home. Be that as it may, for different people, regardless of how desperate the waterways, leaving where they procure their job isn't an alternative they can manage. 

The lockdown focused on transient laborers' unsafe working conditions. It stays not yet clear what the people pulling the strings, both at the state and focal level, will do to guarantee these individuals will profit the advantages of the different laws and guidelines which exist to secure traveler laborers.