Migrated labourers return to Gujarat

AHMEDABAD, FEB. 21. Pigeons who missed their share for many days in the wake of the earthquake, have started flocking city squares once again to pick their feed, even as Gujarat continued its endeavour to resurrect itself from the January 26 catastrophe.

A large number of labourers who had fled the State have started coming back to pick up the threads of their lives, just as those who remained rooted here are trying to push the `black Friday' into oblivion.

The diamond and hotel industry which employs a large number of casual labour from outside the State, particularly Rajasthan and Orissa, is getting back to usual business with the increasing number of workers who had left for their native places returning, sources told PTI.

Life in Ahmedabad has now assumed a semblance of normality with roadside dhabas, tea stalls and Channawala who have resumed their small business witnessing a gradual increase in the customer turn-out as the Sun sets on the banks of Sabarmati.

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