78% rural Indians satisfied with govt's steps to fight Covid-19: Survey

A total of 25,371 respondents were interviewed between May 30 and July 16, 2020 during the exercise and all of them were main earners of their households, and thus primarily men

An overwhelming majority of rural Indians are satisfied with the steps taken by the Narendra Modi government as well as state governments to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, despite facing hardships that forced some to sell land, phones and watches, and take loans from neighbours to get by, according to a nationwide survey unveiled on Monday.

Seventy-four per cent of rural Indians are satisfied with the steps taken by the Modi government to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the "nationwide" survey of rural India by media platform Gaon Connection.

About 78 per cent respondents said they were also satisfied with