Needed, A Helping Hand
May 28, 2020
4 minutes
BY SONAL KHETARPAL
ILLUSTRATION BY RAJ VERMA
(With inputs from Joe C. Mathew)
Aleather factory in Kanpur refused to pay its 10 workers. A handloom workshop in Varanasi asked its five artisans not to show up from the next day. And, with no customers, a tea stall vendor in New Delhi’s Connaught Place shut shop, leaving the helper to fend for himself.
This section of society (there are 45 crore unorganised workers in the country), accounting for 90 per cent of the country’s workforce, has been hit the hardest by the nationwide lockdown to counter the Covid-19 threat. CMIE data shows that out of
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