India, May 21 -- Only five per cent want to stay in their work places, according to the organisation's latest mapping exercise of migrants

As high as 95 per cent migrant workers would like to go back to their place of residence in spite of the insecurity of financial loss or unemployment thereafter, according to an ongoing mapping exercise undertaken by land and forest rights organisation, Ekta Parishad.

Out of the total 31,423 migrants (who are stuck outside at their city of work) interviewed till May 20, 2020, only five per cent said they would like to stay back in their respective workplaces.

Moreover, the average availability of food in the absence of any relief measures was around four to five days per family and 86 per cent of th...