Indian government backs down on plans to issue orange passports to labourers

The Indian government has scrapped plans to issue Indian migrant labourers with orange coloured passports rather than the usual blue ones.

This comes after it faced a backlash, accused of discrimination.

Our India correspondent Rebecca Bundhun reports 

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