{"id":99,"date":"2020-03-27T19:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2020-03-27T19:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:38:01","slug":"coronavirus-in-india-lockdown-critically-hit-daily-wage-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/coronavirus-in-india-lockdown-critically-hit-daily-wage-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in India: Lockdown Critically Hit Daily Wage Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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During the lockdown in India, the daily wage workers and the\nmigrant laborers are affected the worst due to the lockdown. The most-likely\nscenario is that they will be malnourished at best while in the worst-case\nscenario, they will die of hunger. They have no means of income or anything to\nget bread and water to feed their families. The daily wage workers in India are\nthe below lower class people who are extremely poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lockdown has left them helpless in severe starvation as\nthey have no way to make a living. Most of them are falling back to their\nhometowns that are far away from the cities where they presently work. Due to\nthe shutdown of public transports, including inter-state buses and trains, they\nare forced to walk the whole way to hometown.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent report from India Today<\/strong>, Munna<\/strong>, one\nof the daily wage workers says, he has not eaten for hours, and he doesn\u2019t even\nhave 5 rupees to buy a cup of tea when asked by the news reporter. He then\nstarted weeping and said that his whole family, including children and wife are\nhungry too. While India battles Coronavirus, many poor people have another war,\nthe one for survival. Munna belongs from Bhopal<\/strong>,\nMadhya Pradesh<\/strong>, who is under\npressure to get food to feed his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For millions of daily wage workers, the lockdown means\nfamine or lack of income to buy food. Many migrant laborers are leaving cities\nand heading to their hometown, which is approximately about 500 kilometers. With\ntransportation terminated in India, a family decided to walk to their home,\nwhich is about 400 km away from their work. They said here they would die due\nto lack of food, and if they manage to reach their home, there is a hope for\nsurvival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another daily wage worker Mehto<\/strong> has a cycle rickshaw, so along with his family, he is leaving\nfor his home too. He lives in Delhi<\/strong>\nfor work, and his hometown is located about 1050 kilometers<\/strong> away from work. He has decided to reach home with\nthe help of cycle rickshaws as soon as possible with his family. Mehto also\nstated that he had not been to work for the last 4-5 days, and now his tiny\nsavings have ended as well. His job in Delhi is to drive the cycle rickshaws to\ntransport small goods from one to another place on behalf of daily wage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just think how much helpless they have become in India while\nthe lockdown is going on. We can hardly even imagine such the worst condition\nof daily wage workers in India who are barefoot walking home without any meal\nor water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lockdown due to Covid-19 might be a wise step to prevent the spread of the epidemic, but simultaneously, it has also put the millions of life in extreme danger. One another man Rajkumar<\/strong>, a cycle rickshaw puller, said he doesn\u2019t even have money to return his home in Raebareli, Uttarpradesh<\/strong>. He continued that he has children in the home waiting for him to have a meal, but he doesn\u2019t even have complete 10 rupees in the pocket to feed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The central and state government of India is allowing essential food items for the people in the country, but many have no means to pay house rents, bills, and even to buy food. Millions of lives are in danger during the ongoing pandemic, but if the situations remain the same, then starvation would undoubtedly kill millions of daily wage workers. The transfer services are suspended too, and many have lost hope even to reach their home, let alone getting food. As per an official record, there are about 420 million<\/strong> people in India who work in the unorganised sector<\/strong>. We appreciate all of you to pray for them and their families as much as you can and, if possible, make donations or feed them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the lockdown in India, the daily wage workers and the migrant laborers are affected the worst due to the lockdown. The most-likely scenario is that they will be malnourished at best while in the worst-case scenario, they will die of hunger. They have no means of income or anything to get bread and water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eglobalsoftsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}