As the country is forced into a #21daylockdown to restrict the spread of the Corona Virus, here's a thread of stories of people for whom "working from home" and "social distancing" spell a loss of livelihood and could mean having no food on the table for several days. 👇
‘I was born in garbage, I will die in garbage’
Kitabun Nisa Shaikh, a 75-year-old waste picker who works near the huge Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, has braved a life of poverty and violence to take care of her family!
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Mumbai’s safai karamcharis are on the frontlines of the battle against Covid-19. Wages delayed, and with little protective gear, they’re still clearing garbage even in the toxic air of the Mahul area.
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In Marathwada's Tuljapur, shopkeepers, vendors and others whose livelihoods depend on the famous temple in town, are struggling with no sales after the March 17 lockdown measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19
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At labour clusters in Vijayawada – 'markets' where employers 'shop' for labourers – migrants wait every morning to be hired for hard daily wage jobs – driven from their villages by drought, debt and desperation.
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In government schools in West Bengal's villages, cleaning staff and mid-day meal workers are hired part time, which ensures low salaries and no benefits, forcing women to do multiple jobs to put food on their table.
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Tulshi Bhagat of Murbichapada in Thane works 32 hours 15 times a month, travels 200 kilometers in a train to sell leaves, besides doing farm work and house work – and hopes that educating her children will lift them out of this hard labour.
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People from one of the poorest districts of India have no option but to migrate to cities seeking work on construction sites with no guarantees.
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