Living with Multiple Vulnerabilities: Impact of COVID-19 on the Urban Poor in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
82.32% *Total number of households with ration cards where data regarding Aadhar card linkage was collected, N=4,111 between 22/5/2020 and 30/6/2020. Financial Insecurities and Direct Cash Transfers for a Few “Since we didn’t know that a lockdown was going to be implemented, we didn’t really save up any money for it. My husband is a daily wage earner so we would run our house based on what he would earn during the day,” says Shayma, a home-based worker living in a slum in Bandra in Mumbai’s western suburbs. The loss of income deepened the uncertainties of households dependent on ...