2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Algorithm

Human rights

Linguistics

Philosophy

Government (linguistics)

Virology

Economics

Computer science

Development economics

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Outbreak

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Political science

Constitution of India

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Sociology

Migrant workers

Constitution

Medicine

Economic growth

Pandemic

Disease

Socioeconomics

State (computer science)

Pathology

Social Sciences & Humanities Open

India was one of the leading countries to implement the initial lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but still, the lockdown failed and within a few months, India joined the list of countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemic. Why did this transpire? What were the reasons abaft this? Where did the Indian government miss? This manuscript endeavors to study the lacunae in the lockdown plans of the Indian Government and highlights the mistakes committed by the Government which caused the lockdown in India to fail and further exposed the domestic migrant laborers to unbearable difficulties. The manuscript argues that the fundamental and economic rights bestowed upon the domestic migrant workers and other laborers under labor laws and the Indian constitution were breached extensively during the lockdown and that the state's policies during the lockdown worsened the condition of the domestic migrant workers.

Migrant workers and human rights: A critical study on India’s COVID-19 lockdown policy