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Chanchal Devi’s three children haven’t tasted milk for almost a year. The staple was among items the 35-year-old and her husband could no longer afford after they both first lost work when India’s capital New Delhi went into lockdown in March last year. Their distress deepened after this April due to a surge in Covid-19 infections. They’re now borrowing money to buy food and must watch their school-aged kids eat less, often going to bed on empty stomachs. “I can’t sleep at nights,” said Chanchal from her home in Lal Gumbad Basti, a neighborhood of migrant workers about 20 min...

Hunger crisis forces even middle-class Indians to line up for rations SECTIONS Last Updated: Jul 14, 2021, 06:25 AM IST Share Synopsis While few statistics are available, migrants and workers at food distribution centers in major Indian cities say they can’t remember seeing lines this long of people yearning for something to eat. AFP Chanchal Devi’s three children haven’t tasted milk for almost a year. The staple was among items the 35-year-old and her husband could no longer afford after they both first lost work when India’s capital New Delhi went into lockdown in March last year. ...

Amid massive job losses, up to a 51% decline in earnings and reduced food intake, labourers struggled through the lockdown in Gujarat.

The head of Azim Premji’s Centre for Sustainable Employment on the tremendous distress hiding beneath job market statistics in India.

India’s already-stressed rural economy is getting battered by the second wave of Covid-19 Economists point to signs of a growing crisis and call for urgent relief measures to ward off long-term damage. Ramesh Ram, 31, is listed as a textile industry staff worker in the administration’s database of migrant workers in southwest Bihar’s Kaimur district. But for the last three years, Ram has worked as a contract labourer among the tens of thousands employed at the Alang ship-breaking and recycling yard in Gujarat, making enough to get by. Today, Ram is back in his village, with no work, no...