In pictures: Indian migrant workers homecoming still a long way off

A migrant family walks to board train, after a limited reopening of India's giant rail network following a nearly seven-week lockdown to slow the spreading of the COVID-19 in Greater Noida, India.

Migrant workers and their families walk to board a bus to reach a railway station to drive to their home state of eastern Bihar.

A migrant worker sits with her children as they wait to cross the border to their home state of Uttar Pradesh in New Delhi.

Satyendra Kumar, a migrant worker, massages the feet of his daughter after walking for three days, as they wait to cross the border to their home state of Uttar Pradesh in New Delhi.

Migrant workers sleep outside a railway station in Ahmedabad.

Migrant workers from other states trying to return to their homes walks towards a pick up point for transportation to a train station in Ahmedabad. Tens of thousands of migrant laborers have been returning from big cities to their villages after losing jobs because of a countrywide lockdown imposed in late March to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

A migrant woman from another state trying to return to her home holds her children as she waits for transportation to a train station in Ahmedabad.

A policeman wields his baton to disperse migrant workers as they were demanding train service to their home state of Bihar, in Ahmedabad.

A migrant worker's child carries an infant at a temporary shelter while waiting to register for free travel on a train, on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

Migrant workers sit inside a truck and try to cross Delhi, Uttar Pardesh border to reach their home state during lockdown in New Delhi.

A woman migrant worker with her child looks for transport to return to her home state in New Delhi.