Mysuru: Senior journalist P. Sainath alleged that demonetisation had badly hit migrant workers who used to send money home every week. He was speaking during the inaugural session of the two-day National Seminar on ‘Migration,’ organised as part of Bahuroopi Theatre Festival, at Rangayana premises here yesterday.
He added that farmers who relied on their children working elsewhere for monetary help too were affected. Citing an example, Sainath said that workers would migrate from Maharashtra to bordering Karnataka to cut sugarcane who were usually paid in Rs.500 currency notes which was stopped on demonetisation.
