Tag: COVID-19
Relief and Livelihood with Dignity for Delhi’s CityMakers: Panel Discussion
Simi Mehta and Arjun KumarA segment of results of a telephonic survey, based on responses from Delhi, was discussed at a Cities Edition Web...
Wavering women’s health amid COVID-19 pandemic
Simi Mehta*, Anshula Mehta**The COVID-19 Pandemic, apart from exposing the glaring gaps in our healthcare system, has also highlighted the need for a gender...
Gig Workers Are Contributing Big In The Times Of Covid-19; Their...
Balwant Singh Mehta, Arjun KumarBackgroundRapid technological advancement around the world has ushered in the era of ‘the future of work’ also...
Myriad Misery of Migrant Workers: COVID-19 and Lockdown
I. C. Awasthi, Balwant Singh Mehta, Mashkoor Ahmad and Arjun KumarPreludeWith close to 100,000 COVID-19 cases, India has entered its...
दिल्ली से प्रवासी श्रमिको का पलायन और संकट की स्थिति में...
पूजा कुमारीकोविड -19 महामारी के कारण राष्ट्रव्यापी लॉकडाउन की घोषणा के बाद दिल्ली से प्रवासी मजदूरों के बड़े पैमाने पर पलायन ने देश के...
Exodus of migrant workers from Delhi – where is the data...
P C Mohanan and Arjun KumarLarge scale exodus of migrant labourers from Delhi following the announcement of the nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19...
Vulnerable Victims of the Coronavirus: Implications for the Elderly and...
By Dr Arjun Kumar, Dr Simi Mehta, Prof Balwant Singh MehtaThe Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread across the world emerging as a pandemic, traumatizing...
The link between lockdown, COVID-19, and domestic violence
Arjun Kumar, Balwant Singh Mehta, Simi MehtaIn the run-up to the announcement of the nationwide lockdown on March 24th, 2020, the government failed to...
Unraveling Urban India’s Water Challenges Amid COVID-19
India’s urban poor lacked decent access to safe water before hand washing became a matter of life and death.
Estimating the work and livelihood losses in the urban informal economy...
The ongoing lockdown due to the pandemic crisis has compounded the challenges for the workers in the informal sector. This article provides evidence from the official data sources like the Periodic Labour Force Survey on the estimates of informal workers put of employment. It estimates the number of most vulnerable informal workers in urban areas by three ways (i) the most affected sectors; (ii) status of work and (iii) vulnerable occupations, where they are engaged in urban areas.
