96 per cent people faced drop in earnings during lockdown: Survey SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 28, 2021, 10:33 AM IST Share Synopsis Job losses and non-availability of casual work were the key reasons for this, and every fifth respondent was forced to go hungry because of no money to buy food, Mukta Srivastava, Maharashtra's convener for the Anna Adhikar Abhiyan, told. Getty Images Before the lockdown, nearly 70 per cent of the respondents had a monthly income Rs 7,000, while the remaining earned about Rs 3,000 per month Nearly 96 per cent of the people surveyed under a food rights campaign in Maharashtra faced a drop in their earnings during the coronavirus-induced lockdown last year, claims a social body.