Come 2021 and the pandemic is raging like never before. Reeling under the devastating second wave, the migrant workers is once again facing unemployment, food insecurity, a wipe-out of savings and rising debts. Though governments are more cautious in announcing lockdowns this year, it has unsettled the workers who are yet to recover from the earlier jolt. Gripped with fear and panic, they have thrown all Covid-19 caution to the winds and are rushing home in huge numbers. Six states namely Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal that accounted for about two-thirds of reverse migration in the first lockdown are witnessing a similar situation again.