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7 ways to revive India's labour market and livelihoods in post-Covid world

It is important to plan how to deal with the economic fallout and rebuild a more inclusive economy in a post-Covid-19 world, and much of that hinges on how we revive labour markets and livelihoods

LABOURERS, labour, worker, migrants, poor, population, PDS, hunger, population, crowd, lockdown, coronavirus

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Finding themselves suddenly out of work, unable to pay rent or to feed themselves, hundreds of thousands of migrants and daily-wage labourers made a desperate attempt to go back from cities to their hometowns

Sabina Dewan

6 min read Last Updated : Apr 18 2020 | 1:17 PM IST

Crises highlight the chasms in a society. This crisis is deepening ours. For long, India has hidden behind the guise of diversity to conceal socially sanctioned discrimination on the basis of caste, religion, and gender. Discrimination that has manifested in deep socio-economic disparities that are now important determinants of how equipped people are to weather the current storm. The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have not only cast a spotlight on how vulnerable such a large share of India’s population is, but also how much more vulnerable it is when compared with others.

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Topics : Coronavirus Lockdown Health crisis Indian Economy labour market Indian society Labour cost health

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