Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on socio economic condition of daily wage labours: Micro level study of Namchi South Sikkim

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Dr. Tej Kumar Siwakoti

Daily wage labours, skilled, unskilled COVID-19, Pandemic and socio economic condition.

The outbreak of COVID-19 depressed the world in various forms, mostly in unorganised sector where majority of the skilled and unskilled labours are associated or depended for their income. Increase in unemployment rate, decrease in production, shutting down the international activities including trade and work from home strategy push the world towards massive economic crisis. In more particular the impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in developing economies is more vulnerable where most of the people are living under poverty. The collateral damages of Pandemic is been seen in almost every sectors such as primary, secondary and tertiary sector. Replacement of actual appearance to virtual due to Pandemic is not practicable is some sector like in agriculture, manual production industries etc which create massive downfall in world economy. With the restrictions on movement of people locally, nationally and internationally or in other words complete national lockdown to control further spread of Corona Virus (COVID-19) sake the daily wage labours economic conditions. Generally labours who are directly depends on daily wage labours activities basically belongs to poor family background or they are usually migrated people like rural to urban, districts to districts, state to state, etc. It is not necessary that all daily wage labours are migrated since local people are also engaged in daily wage labours due to economic condition or there should be various factors which force them to engage in daily wage labours. Off course poverty, unemployment, and other social factors are highly active which force people to migrate from low income region to high income level, but it does not mean local people of the destination not involved in daily wage labour activities. In this study researcher try to find out the real impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in socio economic condition of daily wage labours since with the no work how they feed their children and how much they depress, how they survive with no income and what are the measures which they used to earn income. This study is purely based on survey, done by researcher after lifting the lockdown in Sikkim.

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Dr. Tej Kumar Siwakoti (May-2023). Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on socio economic condition of daily wage labours: Micro level study of Namchi South Sikkim. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(5), j568-j577. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2305993.pdf

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Research Area: Social Science and Humanities 

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Country: Gangtok, Sikkim, India

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