COVID-19 Leads to Major Crises in India

6 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2021

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Madhuram Modani

Bharati Vidyapeeth University, New Law College

Date Written: June 8, 2021

Abstract

As Indian economy was crippling due to its poverty ratio and lack of education in the society and its increasing unemployment rate, the coronavirus was making its way in the Indian roads. The first case in India of COVID-19 patient was reported on 30th Jan 2020 and that person had travel from Wuhan, China, Where rest of world already reported thousands of cases. It was just the starting of a huge setback which is totally unpredicted by anyone. The increasing growth rate of coronavirus patients in China and Europe leads to the death of number of people as there was no proper vaccine or first aid developed for this virus yet so the governments left with only option to impose the lockdown for unthinkable period of time in the respective countries, thus to take precaution against the virus the people were told by the leaders to quarantine themselves and follow social distancing nouns and the laws made by the government.
On 24 March 2020 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced 21 days nationwide lockdown thus making people stay at home people were not allowed to go out of houses without any emergency (medical needs, groceries etc.) and the economic impact of this lockdown is much more severe on migrant workforce, These workers constituting the informal sector, total to a staggering 139 million and are about 93% of the workforce. According to a survey about 50% of these people had ration for less than a day and a study by Stranded Workers Action Network stated that 89% of stranded workers had not being paid wages by their employer during the first 21days of lockdown thus many of them have to move back to their towns. And the situation were made much worse for them as buses, trains and taxis were out of services due to lockdown, many of them have to walked, cycled hundreds of kilometers with all their stuff in hand with their entire family

Keywords: COVID-19, corona, virus, corona virus, Indian economy, crises, low growth rate, income disparity

Suggested Citation

Modani, Madhuram, COVID-19 Leads to Major Crises in India (June 8, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3862187 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3862187

Madhuram Modani (Contact Author)

Bharati Vidyapeeth University, New Law College ( email )

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