While migrants from all over the country are walking home from cities, those at IIT Bombay seem to be going through their own ordeal amid the COVID-19-caused lockdown. The Students collective – IIT Bombay for Justice has written to the institute's director seeking relief for daily wagers.

The informal students' body has pointed to the condition of construction labourers and other contractual workers inside IIT-B's Powai campus. The letter to IIT-B Director Subhasis Chaudhuri claims that the IIT-B administration has failed to pay the workers and treat them with dignity and respect.