Several news reports have stated that the working class has been hit especially hard by demonetisation, with many returning to their villages given the drop in work and wages in the last two weeks. The Wire spoke to many migrant workers at the Old Delhi railway station before they left Delhi to understand the problems they have been facing ever since Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes were taken out of circulation.

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