Rural India sinks deeper into debt as COVID-19 wipes out work
The Hindu
Interviews with 75 households in a cluster of eight villages in Uttar Pradesh showed household incomes have slumped nearly 75% on average
Asha Devi doesn’t remember how many meals she has skipped as she struggles to feed her family of seven in a remote corner of Northern India where the novel coronavirus is compounding old problems of rural debt and poverty. Devi, 35, had to mortgage her land for a ₹20,000 loan and six month on, as the money runs out, she has stopped buying milk, halved her use of cooking oil and can afford lentils only about once every 10 days. With her construction worker husband jobless, she’s facing going deeper into debt to get by.
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