As he crosses the UP-Bihar border to reach the Gopalganj check post, Mohammed Zubair, astride a hand-driven tricycle for the physically challenged, is a picture of relief and exhaustion.
It has taken the 28-year-old almost two weeks to cover the distance from Ghazipur on the Delhi-UP border. Afflicted with polio as a child and also unable to use his left hand, he has used the right arm to cycle to Bihar, covering 50-60 km a day.
He says he will never return to Delhi where he had gone two months ago in search of a job. He found one — he was paid Rs 200 a day at the Ghazipur mandi where he would cut fish. But then the lockdown was announced.Zubair says after the first lockdown extension, he realised he was running out of money. So, on April 23, he packed some beaten rice, gur, and namkeen and took out his tricycle to head home to Araria.
Exhausted, Zubair is now in the queue for registration of migrants and hopes to find a bus which can carry his tricycle on its roof.
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