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India’s already-stressed rural economy is getting battered by the second wave of Covid-19
Economists point to signs of a growing crisis and call for urgent relief measures to ward off long-term damage.
Ramesh Ram, 31, is listed as a textile industry staff worker in the administration’s
database of migrant workers in southwest Bihar’s Kaimur district. But for the last three years, Ram has worked as a contract labourer among the tens of thousands employed at the Alang ship-breaking and recycling yard in Gujarat, making enough to get by.
Today, Ram is back in his village, with no work, no capital to till his small parcel of land and living in penury with his family of six, which includes three young daughters aged six years, eight years and 10 years.
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Ramesh Ram, 31, is listed as a textile industry staff worker in the administration s database of migrant workers in south west Bihar s Kaimur district. But for the last three years, Ram has worked as a contract labourer among the tens of thousands employed at the Alang ship-breaking and recycling yard in Gujarat, making enough to get by. Today, Ram is back in his village, with no work, no capital to till his small parcel of land, and living in penury with his family of six, which includes three young daughters aged 6, 8 and 10. Even before the second Covid-19 wave hit India this February, tens of millions of workers such as Ram had barely managed to recover from the adverse economic effects of the nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.