Covid 19 Outbreak: The Cascading Impact On The Workers Of The Unorganized Sector

Abstract

In India, unorganised sector accounts for a large percentage of total employment. The global Covid-19 pandemic has attacked the unorganised sector with a health shock and an economic shock. The purpose of the study is to identify the cascading impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the quality of life of the workers in the unorganized sector. The findings of the research revealed that through exploratory factor analysis five areas have been identified where  COVID-19 is having a very cascading impact on the quality of life of the workers in the unorganized sector. There exist significant difference of the cascading impact on the quality of life of the workers  in the unorganised sector based on their type of occupation but does not exist any significant difference with respect to  gender, age and income of the workers in the unorganized sector. The analysis of the survey reflected that construction workers are worstly hit by this pandemic . The paper has also reflected the measures adopted by the Centre and the State Government towards the upliftment of the workers in the unorganized sector.