From Support to Disillusionment, How Cuttack Coped With the Lockdown -Surajit Das and Madhubrata Rayasingh

-TheWire.in

Most of the people studied in the survey lost their sense of job security and said the government should put a robust unemployment programme in place.

In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the common people, we made 122 phone calls from June 1 to 5, covering 595 people in the business capital and the second largest city of the state of Odisha – Cuttack.

The respondents were from diverse occupations like the autorickshaw driver, pan shop owner, domestic help, fish-meat-vegetable-fruit vendors, grocery shop owners, laundry shop owner, tailor, photocopy shop owner, milkmen, trolley puller, AC mechanic, driver, security guard, construction supervisor, wall-painting labourers, mason, advocate, printing shop owners, daily wage labourer, snack vendors and so on.

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