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‘What will we eat?’ labourers and people from unorganised sectors stare at uncertain future -Deep Mukherjee

-The Indian Express

As a result of the lockdown, thousands, including daily wage labourers, street vendors and those in the unorganised sector, are staring at a massive crisis, with many without the means to even buy food.

Jaipur: It’s been an unusual Monday afternoon for Dharmanath Sapera, who, instead of his usual routine of collecting scrap or working at construction sites, is spending the day worrying about arranging the next day’s meal for his family of nine members.

Sapera, who is in his early forties, along with other families living in makeshift shelters at a slum in Jaipur’s Mansarover, has been out of work ever since the Rajasthan government announced a lockdown of the state till March 31, in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. So far, the state has reported 28 positive cases.

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