New Delhi: Amid reports of economies suffering and big companies reorganizing their budgets according to new realities in the COVID-19 era, a Delhi-based farmer has arranged air tickets to get labourers back on his farm from Bihar.
Pappan Singh of Bakhtawar Village had done it earlier also when the workers wanted to go back to their hometowns after a coronavirus-induced lockdown came into force for the first time. He had sent them home by air.
Speaking to ETV Bharat here, Pappan Singh said: "there are some labourers who are dependent on me and it's my duty to provide them work".
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He said 21 air tickets, each costing Rs 5,200, have been booked online and sent to the workers.
"It would take an hour or so for them to reach Delhi and we will pick them from the airport," he said, asserting that he was "duty-bound to provide them work".
"I am also bearing half the cost of air tickets for family members, who would not be working but just stay here with their loved ones as they work on my farms," he said.
