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22 nd May 2020 05:00 PM I left the home on bike to go and pick Deepak. We had planned to go out to distribute kits to the Banjara community leaving in a basti near Jalgaon. As soon as I came on the main road, I saw a young girl (14years old) lying on the ground and a women crying beside her. There were few people around them but nobody was willing to go near her due to fear of COVID-19. I stopped and went near them to check what happened. The girl was being hit by the bike few minutes ago, the people who hit her ran away. There was no injury but the girl was unconscious. Since then her mother was trying to get help but nobody even bothered to stop. We tried to stop cars but nobody stopped. There was even a car passed by which has a emergency services sign of medical shop. Looking at me one man on the bike agreed to let her sit on his bike and came with me to the doctors. But the girl was unable to get on the bike, people were mute spectators (I guess yesterday I saw few m...

दि. १५ मे २०२० वेळ: संध्याकाळचे ६:३० स्थळ: इच्छादेवी चौफुली, जळगाव प्रसंग १: साधारण ६० वर्षाचे म्हातारे गृहस्त पायी चालणाऱ्या सुमारे २० जणांच्या गटासोबत स्टोल समोर येऊन थांबले. चष्मा   तुटलेला. पायातली चप्पल निघत होती. खांद्यावर एक छोटी बॅग. हा माणूस नाशिक वरून निघाला होता. काही नंतर पायी तर काही नंतर मिळेल त्या गाडीने प्रवास करून जळगावपर्यंत पोहोचला होता.त्यांना गोंदिया जायचेय. सकाळपासून काहीही खाल्लेले नव्हते. प्रसंग २: बाईक वर पुढे बॅग अडकवलेली. मागे बायको आणि दोघांच्या मध्ये ४-५ वर्षाचा पोरगा. रायगड वरून आदल्यादिवशी सकाळी ११ वाजता निघालेत. वाटेत नाशिकला ५ तास रस्त्यावरच कडेला मुक्काम केला आणि तिथून पुन्हा एकदा निघालेत. यांना जळगाव-जामोद जायचंय. लॉकडाऊन सुरु झाल्यानंतर काहीच दिवसात मुंबई,   पुण्यात अडकलेले असंख्य मजूर पायी आपल्या गावी   जायला निघाले. खिशात पैसे नाहीत, खायला अन्न नाही. खाद्यावर एक छोटी बॅग   आणि हातात पाण्यासाठी बाटली. १०००-१२०० किलोमीटर चा प्रवास यांनी पायी केला. काही दिवसापासून सरकारने ट्रक, बस मधून जायला यांना परवानगी दिल...

15 th May 2020 06:30 pm: Incidence 1 : An old man (Around 60 year old) came to a stall. His spec was half broken. When asked,”Said he started from Nasik (around 250 km from Jalgaon) and now walking towards Gondia. He took a ride wherever possible and Incidence 2: A couple along with a 4 year old son parked their bike and walked towards the stall providing free food to the migrants. They started at 11 am yesterday from Raigadh and were going to their hometown in Jalgaon-Jamod. Jalgoan is connected with Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Situated on a National Highway Jalgaon also connect Mumbai to Nagpur and Chhattisgarh. Hundreds of trucks and tempos are crossing Jalgaon every day. Every truck is filled with at least 80 to 100 people (sometimes even more than that). Crowded, no space to even sit properly, even no space to take a breath, risk of getting infected with COVID-19, no food, no water, no money. They are moving just with a hope that they will reach their home. Mig...