(/magazine/2020/12) Advertisement According to the ILO estimates, without any public support, the income losses of those who were working in the informal economy, including domestic migrant workers, came to be upto around 60 percent. [ILO estimated (https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/--ed_protect/---protrav/--travail/documents/brie ngnote/wcms_743534.pd )that in the absence of income support measures, earnings for informal economy workers are expected to decline by 28 per cent in upper-middle-income countries, 82 per cent in lower-middle and low-income countries and 76 per cent in high-income countries.] What has happened in India is that many of these domestic migrant workers were asked to go back home without much support. One can fully understand why this was happened and this potentially was inevitable. However, the ILO would advise attention be paid to ensure that there is strong income support provided to those domestic migrant workers. Of course, we know that the resources are limited and tight but these resources need to be invested in people and targeted at those vulnerable. NMS: In August, a report (https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-