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Well-being is a multifactorial concept based on several parameters. Through this study social well-being of migrant workers is sought and its reliance on physical and economic well-being. This study is conducted on female labour at construction sites, the population being migrant. The study is a multi-sited ethnography where the fieldwork is done at a destination site (Delhi) and one of the sites of origin. It is a qualitative study based on the narratives of people in order to prepare an account of experience and subjectivity. Through this paper, the aim is to understand the local conception of well-being and negotiation adopted by the people. This paper reveals how meanings are given to well-being and approaches that people adopt to ensure it. The paper unravels that well-being exists in interaction shaped by culture. The present paper studies the aspect of subjective well-being which resides on various dimensions but experience of health being central to each. Through this paper an attempt is made to bring out the paradigm shift taking place in health practices and significance of traditional practices in experiencing health. In this paper institutional health knowledge is obtained from the respondents particularly in rural space. The paper has explored local conceptions of health. The paper unravels migration leading to hybridized form of health practice and subjective well-being operating in chain of experiences of health, pleasure and social capital. The paper also studies the aspect of reverse migration during nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic.