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India Coronavirus Dispatch: How the lockdown upended Adivasi communities

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A woman passes the stone erected at the village crossing. | Photo: Ankur Paliwal

Bharath Manjesh New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : Dec 21 2020 | 3:25 PM IST

India’s unplanned lockdown unleashed fresh hell for its Adivasis

The lockdown imposed in March took the general public by surprise and several sections of society were reeling from it for months. The Adivasis and other forest-dwelling communities, which at 104 million individuals make up 8.6% of the population, were particularly hard hit.

Since the Adivasi communities live in remote areas, information about the disease was not adequately available, to begin with. These communities who have been marginalised in terms of access to healthcare were badly hit as Covid-19 impacts people with compromised health conditions and low immunity. A complete lockdown, restricted entry

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