Workers Bear The Brunt Of Lockdown newsclick.in

Daily wage workers and laborers are without work, stocks in their homes are beginning to dry up. It has been over 50 days post the abrogation of Article 370—which had granted a special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Bearing the brunt of the ongoing lockdown, daily wage work has been adversely affected, with wage workers just having to camp on the streets and managing with whatever little supplies they have left in the stock.

Ali Mohammed puts up a stall every morning hoping to sell corn that he cultivates at his home in Sumbal. Ali travels for over three hours to get to the city for an abysmally low amount of Rs 300 every day. “My house is over 30 kilometers away. Ever since the lockdown has been announced, my business has been completely crushed. Earlier, I used to makeover Rs 2,000 on an average day. Now, all my cash reserves are also drying up and I’m having to think of borrowing money to sustain my family.”