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The breakup of the sample is provided below based on the category of the migrant and by industry in which the migrant workers are engaged in. [...] Based on FGDs and interactions in the field one of the reasons is the unfulfilled aspirations of the youth and lack of any meaningful employment leading to a large number of unemployed youths. [...] Of the 313 migrants in our sample who chose to go back to their hometowns during the pandemic, 91.7% of migrants chose to leave the city during the March-April months of the pandemic as seen clearly in Figure 10. [...] The vast majority of the migrant workers had no income during the lockdown and the second wave of the pandemic. [...] The type of disruptions channels of sending the remittances have been elaborated below: Table 16 - Types of Disruption in Remittance Channels Of the migrants who reported sending remittances during the pandemic period, disruptions in some of the banking services, not being able to go to banks due to mobility restrictions and no way of sending the money physically have been cited as major sources o.