{"id":38091,"date":"2020-04-29T06:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T01:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=38091"},"modified":"2020-04-29T06:50:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T01:20:04","slug":"ahmedabads-poor-people-helpless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/ahmedabads-poor-people-helpless\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmedabad&#8217;s poor people helpless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) study on the impact of lockdown on the marginalized households has found that that around 74% households reported \u201cnot earning regular incomes anymore\u201d and 60% reporting that their current food supply would last \u201cfor less than a week\u201d.<br \/>\n<a name=\"more\"><\/a>Carried out by Prof Ankur Sarin with a group of researchers, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13f_hX_FwUln0B9NOyf5s5LMrPIKfulry\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u00a0<\/a>said that many expressed \u201canxiety about the future stability of their incomes\u201d, with many households stating that \u201cthey won\u2019t be able to make next month\u2019s rent, phone bills, electricity bills, next installment of school fees.\u201d<br \/>\nThe study is based on interviews with around 500 households in Naroda Road, Shahpur Darwaza, Bapunagar, Old Vadaj, New Vadaj, Ambavadi, Amraivadi, Anandwadi, Gita Mandir, Sabarmati, Odhav, Vatva, Vastrapur, Ramdevnagar, Satellite, Ramol, Sarkhej, Kalupur, Behrampura, Maninagar, Indrapuri, Bhaipura, Motera, Shahi Baug, Vejalpur and Jamalpur. The respondents were enrolled on a WhatsApp group after taking their consent.<br \/>\nCarried out during the first 21 days of the lockdown, the study said, \u201cMany have taken credit from their employers or neighbours to meet basic food related expenses\u201d, adding, \u201cDue to the sudden fall in incomes, most households were unable to procure vegetables, milk, washing powder, sanitary pads among other essentials (other than food).\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) study on the impact of lockdown on the marginalized households has found that that around 74% households reported \u201cnot earning regular incomes anymore\u201d and 60% reporting that their current food supply would last \u201cfor less than a week\u201d. Carried out by Prof Ankur Sarin with a group of researchers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10,4771],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-9Un","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38092,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38091\/revisions\/38092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}