The very day prime minister Narendra Modi announced the #coronavirus lockdown in March, Ankit Sahu, 22, was laid off. Ankit worked as a salesman in a shop selling women’s clothes in #SarojiniNagar, one of Delhi’s most popular #fleamarkets.
It could not have happened at a worse time: the country was going into an extended lockdown and Ankit, his family’s sole breadwinner, was left without an income. So were around 1,900 shop workers, including owners, and street vendors who earned their livelihoods in the Sarojini Nagar market.
Read the full report by Anusuya Som: https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/07/10/sarojini-nagar-workers-plight-shows-how-covid-has-wrecked-delhis-popular-flea-market
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