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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s second COVID-19 wave too saw penury: study -Jacob Koshy

India’s second COVID-19 wave too saw penury: study -Jacob Koshy

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published Published on Feb 23, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 24, 2022

-The Hindu

Hunger Watch-2 finds income dip and hunger, despite no national lockdown.

India’s second wave that didn’t see a national lockdown like in the first failed to significantly alleviate economic distress and hunger among the poor, according to a survey of 6,500 respondents in 14 States.

The survey, Hunger Watch–2, was commissioned by the Right To Food Campaign and The Centre for Equity Studies from December–2021 to January 2022 to evaluate economic distress following the second wave. The same organisations had conducted a similar survey, Hunger Watch–1, in October-December 2020 to measure the fallout of the first wave.

66% of the respondents to the second survey said their income had decreased as compared to pre–pandemic period. This proportion was larger among urban households, among households earning less than 3,000 per month and among Muslim households. Only 34% of the overall sample reported that their household’s cereal consumption in the month preceding the survey was ‘sufficient’ and 79% of the households surveyed reported some form of food insecurity.

Food insecurity is worse among urban households. 87% of Muslim households reported some form of food insecurity compared to 77% Hindu households, the report noted.

The first survey had reported similar numbers suggesting that the absence of a national lockdown didn’t automatically improve the odds of the poorest accessing adequate work and nutrition. Over two thirds of the respondents, for instance, reported that in October 2020, the quantity of food they were able to consume was less than what it was before the lockdown. Seven out of 10 respondents reported a worsening nutritional quality of diets.

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The Hindu, 23 February, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/absence-of-lockdown-didnt-improve-living-conditions-of-poor-survey/article65077457.ece


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