{"id":115178,"date":"2021-06-14T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T11:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=115178"},"modified":"2021-06-14T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T11:07:24","slug":"state-of-working-india-2021-one-year-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/state-of-working-india-2021-one-year-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;State of Working India 2021: One Year of Covid-19&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: With reference to the report &#8216;State of Working India 2021: One Year of ovid-19&#8217; released by Azim Prem Ji University in May 2021, consider the following statements-<br>(a) This report outlines the effects of COVID-19 on employment, income inequality and poverty in India over a period of one year.<br>(b) This report also examines the effectiveness of the policy measures that have been taken so far to provide relief and assistance.<br>(c) The data in this report pertains to the period between January 2019 and May 2021.<br>(d) The monthly income of workers has declined by an average of 32 per cent during the pandemic.<br>Considering the above given statements choose the true statement-<br><\/strong>(a) 1 and 3<br>(b) 2 and 4<br>(c) 1 and 2<br>(d) 3 and 4<br><strong>Answer\u2014(c)<br>related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A report titled &#8216;State of Working India 2021: One Year of COVID-19&#8217; has been published by Azim Premji University, Center for Sustainable Employment, Bangalore in May 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key points of the report are given below &#8212;-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As the pandemic and the eventual lockdowns wreaked havoc on the economy and livelihoods, around 23 crore Indians have been pushed into poverty during the past one year.<\/li><li>The number of individuals who lie below the national minimum wage threshold (Rs 375 per day as recommended by the Anoop Satpathy committee) increased by 230 million during the pandemic.<\/li><li>It noted that though incomes fell across the board, the pandemic has taken a far heavier toll on poorer households. In April and May, the poorest 20 per cent of households lost their entire incomes.<\/li><li>In contrast, the richer households suffered losses of less than a quarter of their pre-pandemic incomes. Over the entire eight-month period (March to October), an average household in the bottom 10 per cent lost Rs 15,700, or just over two months&#8217; income.<\/li><li>About 1.5 crore workers remained out of work by the end of 2020. About 10 crore people lost jobs during the nationwide April-May 2020 lockdown.<\/li><li>Incomes also remained depressed. Average monthly household income per capita in October 2020 (Rs 4,979) was still below its level in January 2020 (Rs 5,989).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/economy-policy\/230-million-indians-pushed-into-poverty-amid-covid-19-pandemic-report-121050600751_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/economy-policy\/230-million-indians-pushed-into-poverty-amid-covid-19-pandemic-report-121050600751_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: With reference to the report &#8216;State of Working India 2021: One Year of ovid-19&#8217; released by Azim Prem Ji University in May 2021, consider the following statements-(a) This report outlines the effects of COVID-19 on employment, income inequality and poverty in India over a period of one year.(b) This report also examines the effectiveness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":115179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-115178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115180,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115178\/revisions\/115180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}