Corona Virus: Impact of lockdown on daily wagers

Shahid Mohi-ud-din
From the moment a human being is born , it is obvious that he has to suffer from mental turmoil and troubles. And to accomplish the feat All of the human beings have to go through a lot of trials, tribulations, persistent, thought-provoking conflicts, so that this specific goal can be achieved as quickly as possible. Wherever the world has reached, but there is one thing that requires the most importance but is very rare. The world Today would not stand on the brink of disaster if this main characteristic was among the foremost priorities of the man. The funeral of humanity has took place all over the world centuries ago, and in this threatening environment, instead of serving people in all countries, mutual animosity and hatred as well as politics between the rulers of the world is still prevailing . The cave is getting a view.Since the Corona virus is a global outbreak by which every part of the world has been badly affected. Rich or poor, healthy or sick, politician or ordinary person. There is, of course, no human being or department that has not been affected by the outbreak in any way. The point of concern made is that the countries most affected by the outbreak are developed. Even though all the facilities are available, they seem helpless today. And now this pandemic plague has hit the developing countries too. So, there is a concern that how to deal with this global epidemic, on the one hand, there are people who work on daily wages and eat in the evening and on the other hand the quantity of such people is very high & to fulfil their daily needs they depend on others . The Health Department is also not strong enough here which could absorb such a huge population within itself. Certainly people here are more affected by hunger &poverty than this epidemic number of daily wage workers in the sub-continent is very numerous. And of course, the most affected segment of population – be it a handicraft department or a labour department or a trade tailor ‘barber’ litter, ‘ rickshaw taxi driver ‘bus driver’ truck driver ‘ Mechanic ‘electrician’ plumber, salesman, day labourer, mechanic, female workers working in homes. All these people used to earn on daily basis and feed their family in the evening.
I talked to Zahoor Ahmad Sheikh, a local labourer who works for a furniture factory and his views were like this. “We used to get up early in the morning and close our factory late at night and would make a lot of money and everyday life was executing very smoothly, but ever since this global epidemic surrounded us, the needs to be met became very difficult task. Everything has to be borrowed from the shops. Finally, how long can they even depend on it and on the other hand, the shops are often closed. ”
The reaction of another labourer, Ghulam Mohiuddin, who works in the handicraft field, was “All the needs of our home depended on the same business. On one hand, the government had already kept the sector back from basic priorities. Now the epidemic has broken out and we are going through the toughest days of life.” Some of these impressions were of the average labourers whose lives had already been rendered intolerant. Another labourer said that he used to earn five hundred rupees a day to support six people in his house. Now if the locals did not come out for help, they would die of hunger, not of corona. The conditions are more worsened in other states of the country. Corona is experiencing heart-wrenching events in our country recently due to covid-19 a women killed four children because of hunger and depression.
We all have a responsibility to volunteer in our own settlements to help the working class who rely on the others.
According to the International Labour Organization, the World Labour Organization, 90 percent of the workforce in India belongs to the non-governmental or informal sectors, including rickshaw drivers, cleaning workers, security guards, porters, garbage collectors or home makers. Now you can guess for yourself how this country will feed a population of 200 million people. According to a BBC report thousands are calling on the helpline daily while thousands are forced to sleep hungry daily as the country is battling an outbreak of the Corona virus. In addition, India is the most populous country in the world with a population of 47 million children and organizations say that the lockdown has affected 40 million children and their families. These include those who work in rural areas and those who pick up trash in cities or sell balloons, pens and other small items at traffic lights. Now you can believe for yourself that if the global epidemic is out of control in the subcontinent, then how will the poorest sections of the country survive? The government’s biggest responsibility is for is to tackle such kind of situation. The Prime Minister of the country has assured that every possible help will be given to the class working below the poverty line but at the grassroots level the promise seem to be a myth. The government should, instead of politics, help every person who is helpless in the name of humanity at this time in a dangerous and disgusting environment, so that in the future, they will continue their lives on the daily basis in this world without any pain, scream & Call and knock on someone’s door. In particular, we all have a responsibility to volunteer in our own settlements to help the working class who rely on the others.
(The author is a freelancer. Views are his own, [email protected])