Coronavirus has affected the world hard that no other place in the universe has ever survived. It has pushed the world to the brink of the new poor. Therefore, people are struggling with a high poverty percentage in the country. The middle-income countries are also suffering in which India, included.
The crisis that India is facing is due to the measures taken to avoid COVID-19. Many households face an income crisis because many people are losing their jobs, remittances, the higher price of groceries, and many other things, ration, and degradation in the health sector and education.
Let’s know more about how the underprivileged division of Indian society is affected by COVID-19:
The crisis that India is facing is due to the measures taken to avoid COVID-19. Many households face an income crisis because many people are losing their jobs, remittances, the higher price of groceries, and many other things, ration, and degradation in the health sector and education.
Let’s know more about how the underprivileged division of Indian society is affected by COVID-19:
Effect due to their localities
In India, most of the poor people live in rural areas. In the rural part of the country, the health services are not up to the mark. Whereas the urban poor suffers when there is a food crisis. Due to the congested arrangement of houses, there makes the coronavirus easier to dominate over the ages. Fall of the market affects the urban poor compared to the rural poor since they fulfill their needs from the domestic assets.
Effect due to their work
The poor of rural areas generally work in the agricultural sector along with their families. Most of them are working in the service sector, self-employed, or informally employed. In middle-income countries initially, the informal service sector employee tripped into poverty while they are fighting from the economic situation of India. With time the rural poor also face the same crisis in their agricultural field as their crops lack supplies and fall the market price.
Facilities of health and education of particular areas in COVID-19 era
In terms of health and education, COVID-19 has taught us an important lesson. The lack of health facilities in certain areas made the situation even worst in some needy families. Whereas, children were facing deficient in nutrition as their only daily bread source relies on mid-day meals. Therefore, discontinuation of schooling, health check-up, and nutrition insufficiency high among the population was severely affecting their self- reliance.
Effect due to Lack of savings and investing in insurance
Due to the pandemic, every person is suffering due to lack of savings. There is least saving money with them that they can plan to invest in insurance. Many poor people will rely on fake strategies of duplicate firms. However, the poor are losing the safety net as they will sell their productive assets and even diminish human capital investments.
Initiatives to improve the situation
A survey predicted that the poor of the country are reducing their expenditure on food. It is resulting in a low nutrition level and is becoming unaware of degraded Human Capital Development. There is a drastic increase in the poverty line due to the majority of people losing their job.
Therefore, government policies need to be made to help, for the betterment of poor and non-facilitated people:
Therefore, government policies need to be made to help, for the betterment of poor and non-facilitated people:
Policy-based on underprivileged and non-facilitated
The government can concentrate on the policy based on nutrition first. The food distributed for the mid-day meal shifted to the BPL ration card, reducing the chaos among the poor. Also, if the government takes the required measures to improve agriculture to produce sufficient nutrition for the whole nation, this can become a boon for all the needy.
Work on new schemes for the poor
The government should tackle the most suffered three problems, which are lack of affordability due to insufficient income, untargeted schemes for the customers, and lack of nutritional policy. If governmental measures must solve these problems, this will target the all-over situation of vulnerable poor people in this time of affliction.
Follow the World Development Report
The World Development Report has suggested promoting economic opportunities for the needy through equitable growth, making the helping centers and firms more responsive and empowered and, preventing and managing to reduce the economic chaos by providing resources to the needy. It automatically will trigger the insufficiencies and poverty of the country.
Tracking the people in need
The government must get proper feedback and response from the people. Monitoring the social and economic crisis, including money-related work, services, price, and delivery, will improve the situation. In this category, the government can take the help of technology. They can collect information on the health sector, employment, food, safety, and domestic services through mobile phones.
Conclusion
Ending poverty and the rate of the new poor will be the real victory over the COVID-19 pandemic. All the schemes should prioritize the poor and the new people going out of the house to earn money, risking their lives. If the government focuses on all these factors, then recovery will shower.