negative impact of covid-19 on employment in india essay
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Undoubtedly the COVID 19 pandemic in India has very severely impacted, rather negatively, the employment figures of India since early 2020. We have seen so many scenarios since March 2020 like corona infection in huge number, corona testing, containment zone, safe home, quarantine, mask, sanitiser, PPE kits, rushing of ambulances, heltering-skeltering of the health personnel, i.e. doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, other support staff, police personnel and most shocking helpless deaths. Side by side, we have also seen another type of scenarios like lockdown in industrial units, a beeline of the job loser labourers with hungry children, women, elderly family members carrying belongings heading towards their native villages. Those who were lucky to get any public transport used it. But millions of hapless migrant labourers including their families took to the street for their native places or unknown places. The most intriguing scene which gave me unspeakable pain is that while crossing over hundreds of kilometres on feet along with the national highways these labourers lost their nationality. The factories where they have given their sweat and toil for years drove them away without making any arrangement for their shelter and food. These Indian nationals did not get any help from the government on the way. Some of them when about to enter their own village was denied entry; they looked vacant across the bamboo barricade! Police have grabbed them midway and put them wherever they liked. As if these migrant labourers were war evacuees! These pictures were not only about unemployment but have raised several questions which our welfare State could not answer.
Now we are facing the second wave of COVID 19 pandemic roughly since March 2021. I do not know why the corona infection flares up in India following the financial year. This time pandemic situation is somewhat different from 2020. Around January, this year we built up an image of Data Karno of Mahabharata. We hired hundreds of flights for transporting tons of vaccines to different countries of the world. But the humorous God was smiling from somewhere. We hardly enjoyed one month of euphemisms from the foreign heads of states. As the COVID 19 second wave gained strength day by day we noticed scaring distress of humankind. The second wave threw away the whole health machinery out of gear. Now we started hiring the same flights to import from foreign countries oxygen cylinders, oxygen concentrators, ventilators, testing kits, PPEs, medicines and certain vaccines. I do not know whether these imports of life-saving devices and articles in huge quantity corroborate our atmanirbharata. However, the coronavirus this time compelled us to set up oxygen plants at different hospitals. We could not fight the second wave effectively. Thousands of patients have died due to a shortage of beds, oxygen and medicines. In India, the number of new cases of infections alarmingly reached 414188 on 7th May 2021. (Source: WHO update no. 70) and the highest number of death in a single day has been recorded on 18.05.2021 is 4529. It is assumed that it is the highest number in the world.
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