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RSS FeedsIndia´s poor hit hardest by coronavirus lockdown
(WorldNews India)

 
 

9 april 2020 11:12:02

 
India´s poor hit hardest by coronavirus lockdown
(WorldNews India)
 


Ghaziabad: With his rickshaw sitting idle outside his one-room shack, Sailesh Kumar is one of the hundreds of millions of poor Indians hit the hardest by the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown. His family of six are stuck in their slum home outside New Delhi earning nothing and waiting desperately for money promised by the government. Like an estimated 100 million others, Kumar is a migrant worker. He left his home village in Bihar, India’s poorest state, seven years ago “for a better life” and “good education” for his kids. Before India’s 21-day lockdown began on March 25, the 38-year-old earned — on a good day — the equivalent of $4 a...


 
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