“You’re giving four hours’ notice for the nationwide lockdown. We got more notice for the janta curfew and the plate-banging event than for migrant workers, tens of millions of them, to go back home.”

- Chinmay Tumbe, professor at IIM-Ahmedabad

In an interview to The Quint, Chinmay Tumbe, an Economics professor at IIM-Ahmedabad and the author of ‘India Moving: A History of Migration’, explains why the nationwide lockdown implemented by the Modi government was poorly planned and lists out suggestions for the Centre to help improve the plight of migrant workers.