Write an essay on the topic "Problem faced by daily rated
labour in lockdown".
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The COVID-19 lockdown has robbed the daily wage workers of their earnings. Delivery boys, contract workers and daily wage earners are either out of jobs or have seen a sharp drop in their earnings. For daily wage earners, a significant number of them migrants, the lockdown has come as a tsunami - at short notice, giving them little time to prepare for the consequences and threatening to take away everything they had managed to build and save.
The lockdown has forced nearly every office to allow its employees to work from home. With people confined indoors, the urban poor who earned their livelihood because of the needs of Delhi's huge working class suddenly find themselves out of work. Those who earned their livelihood by washing the cars of residents of gated communities and posh localities or people who offered laundry and ironing services have no work during the lockdown. Lakshmi, who ran a shack for ironing clothes in an East Delhi locality is just one of many such unwitting victims of the financial crisis triggered by the lockdown.