Despite a currency crisis due to a tight closure, others in rural India were more commonly satisfied with the way the central government and state governments treated the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey.
While 74% of rural indigenous people surveyed were happy with the central government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic, about 78% were also happy with the movements made through their respective state governments, a national survey on the effect of COVID-19 revealed. Rural India via Gaon Connection.
However, more than 68% of respondents faced “high” to “very high” financial difficulties, and about 23% borrowed cash during the closure, according to the survey.
Approximately 8% of respondents sold valuable property, 7% of mortgaged jewellery and 5% of land sold or mortgaged, according to the survey.
“78% of respondents saw that their paintings stopped completely or, to a large extent, the blockade. Qualified staff and (non-professional) staff were the most affected. Work was completely halted for 60% of professional staff and 64 according to staff percentage”, according to the survey of 25,300 respondents in 20 states and 3 EU territories.
Only 20% of respondents said they had discovered paintings under Mahatma Gandhi’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) during the two-month period.
Chhattisgarh reported the consistent percentage of these families with 70%, followed by Uttarakhand (65%) Rajasthan (59%). The territories of Gujarat and the Union of Jammu and Kashmir-Ladakh had the lowest employment rate according to MGNREGA, with a 2 consisting of a penny and four with a penny, respectively.
The survey found that 23% of migrant staff turn to house confinement. However, more than 33% of migrants said they were looking to return to cities to look for work.
More than a portion of farmers managed to harvest their crops in time during the closure, but only a quarter were able to sell them on time.
According to the survey, 71 percent of families with ration cards reported receiving wheat or rice from the government during the closure.
“Of 17 percent of citizens who don’t have a ration card, only 27 percent said they had won wheat or rice from the government. 71% of the families surveyed reported a general decrease consistent with the family-source month of income the year-consistent lockout,” the survey found.
The poor have been the most affected: 75% of poor families and 74% of lower-class families experienced a drop in the source of income from the closure.
“Rural India is not a component of the national media narrative following the coronavirus crisis. This survey provides strong data on how rural India has dealt with this crisis and what it plans to do in the future, adding questions like: Will they go back? cities? Will spending habits be replaced? said Neelesh Misra, founder of Gaon Connection, a rural media platform.
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