India quite literally needs to put a roof over its China dream.
It took a pandemic and a lockdown to highlight the precarious existence of the country's blue-collar workers. Left without jobs and shelter, an estimated 30 million - roughly a fifth of the urban labour force - have gone back to their villages, with many completing long, hazardous journeys on foot when trains and buses shut down.
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