Impact of COVID-19 on Wages of the Labours in India

Abstract

We know about Plague Pandemic, Cholera Pandemic, Influenza Pandemic and the most recent Covid-19 Pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic is world’s one of the dangerous human calamities. In the year 2020, Covid-19 have impacted human lives and survival in various ways. One of the ways in which Covid-19 have impacted on human lives in affecting the wages of labour in India. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, India went under a lockdown condition for over three months. This lockdown has created a big depreciative influence on the economy which eventually impacted on business and their labours. In the year 2020 during second wave of Covid-19, over 10 million people lost their jobs and 97 percent households in the country have witnessed decline in incomes. The government is working hard to recover the loss as well as to secure the lives in the country.