BHOPAL: In a desperate attempt to reach home, a migrant worker from MP’s Sidhi walked nearly 60km, without food or water , before collapsing in a jungle in Maharashtra and dying on April 24.A few hours later, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced that his government would bring back stranded labourers in different parts of the country. By then, Motilal Sahu ’s impoverished kin had pooled together Rs 35,000 to bring his body back to their village, Tilai, in Sidhi’s Bahri region. The ambulance carrying Sahu crossed Bhopal on Saturday, with home still 700km away.Sahu worked as a house painter in Navi Mumbai and was stuck there in the lockdown. Out of money and food, he and about 50 other migrant workers — including nine from MP — set off on foot.SI Kamlakar Munde told TOI that the group started from Nerul in Navi Mumbai around 2.30am on April 22. “Some of them had mobile phones and were leading the group with GPS directions. At 5pm, Motilal collapsed,” said Munde.“They had not found anything to eat or drink for over 24 hours when they saw water in a jungle. Sahu drank the water and fell unconscious. It took them three hours to find a hospital. By then, he was dead,” Sahu’s cousin Sanjay said.