COVID-19 pandemic drove 230 million people in India into poverty: Study

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MUMBAI: About 230 million Indians fell into poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year with young people and women the hardest hit, and the ...

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India's stringent months-long lockdown from last March put about 100 million people out of work, the report by the Bangalore-based Azim Premji University said, with about 15 per cent unable to find jobs even by the end of the year.Women were especially worse-off, with a staggering 47 per cent of female workers unable to secure employment even after virus restrictions were lifted, according to the study published on Wednesday.

Many families coped with the income losses by spending less on food and taking on debt, with an alarming 20 per cent of respondents revealing that their food intake had not improved even six months later.Last year's lockdown sparked a huge exodus of millions of migrant workers who headed home to their villages, with many planning to return after the economy reopened for business.

 

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