Coronavirus has put a brake into everyone’s life. The people staying away from their homes desperately wants to go back. As the lockdown started the daily wagers from Delhi started walking towards there home as no transportation was available. Now, a 20-YO returned home after cycling around 2,000 km from Maharashtra.
20-YO Mahesh Jena used to work in a factory in Sangli-Miraj. The factory where he worked was closed after the lockdown was announced due to COVID-19. The migrant worker cycled around 2,000 km from Sangli-Miraj in Maharashtra to Jaypur in Odhisa. It took around 7 days of time to reach the destination.
Mahesh Jena bought a bicycle for ₹1200 and started his journey on April 1st in the morning. He was stopped twice by police on the Andhra-Maharashtra border and Andhra-Odisha border, but cops allowed him.
Police inspector Ashish Kumar Sahu said:
“With a rucksack on his back, he was cycling. After the lockdown was announced, the factory in Maharashtra where he worked as a daily laborer was closed leaving him and several others in great misery. He somehow managed to get a rickety bicycle from a local there and started cycling to his home in Odisha”.
Mahesh Jena reached his hometown on April 7th and was stopped at the border of his district. He was sent to the district headquarters hospital for screening as per the protocol. He was then sent to the government quarantine for 14 days.
