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Govt concedes lockdown forced large number of migrants to trudge home

Over 46,000 calls, including 32,986 for movement of stranded persons by Shramik special trains, were received by the home ministry control room between the onset of the first Covid lockdown on March 25, 2020 and December 31, 2020, according to the home ministry annual report for 2020-21.

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