Corona has not only triggered a health hazard, it has turned to be a curse for poor people whose livelihoods have been affected due to lockdowns.
Common people to contractors, no one is prepared to engage them in work in fear of contamination. Notably, these are mainly their employers. They result is they are passing through very hard days now.
“We can manage for a few days from our little saving. But this will not serve if the crisis continues for long days," said Raju Khara, a daily labourer of Budharaja area.
“We don’t know how to feed our children and meet rest of our needs thereafter,” Khara added.
Many other labourers who gather at the Fatak railway station everyday at 8 am in search of works are in dire straits to get employers now-a -days. Even civil contractors have stopped their construction works and some of the labourers from out of Odisha and mainly from Murshidabad of WB have left for their respective homes.
But local labourers and those from Titlagarh area who have been staying here since long and working as daily labourers are passing through uncertainty. They are really the shocked ones for whom feeding their children is the main problem than anything else now.
