Yahoo TV

Police fired tear gas in the western Indian city of Surat, in the state of Gujarat, on Monday (May 4)

as they clashed with migrant workers looking to return home.

India's lockdown- which has been extended twice since it began on March 25,

is being eased in some areas, but will continue until May 17, the government said last week.

Officials say around 1,000 stranded workers gathered on the outskirts of the city, but threw stones at police who ordered them to break up their demonstrations.

This worker says he hasn't been paid since March and has no food.

Surat-- a major industrial and diamond-processing city, has suffered through bouts of unrest since lockdown measures were introduced.

And while confinement measures threaten the economic survival of many of India's estimated 140 million migrant laborers,

officials say it is key to beating the virus in the country of 1.3 billion people, where health services are already stretched.