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By 2020, suicide by the Small Biz owner rose 25%

Mumbai: Death because suicide increased by 30% national among small business owners in 2020, the first year of Pandemic Covid-19, compared to 2019, according to NCRB of death and 2020 suicide reports.
Experts said the surge in suicide in this group – from this group 9,052 in 2019 to 11,716 in 2020 – underlined economic difficulties because of the locking subject to Covid.
The NCRB report classifies vendors, traders and other small business owners among the most affected entrepreneurs (as a whole, the death by suicide among entrepreneurs in India rose to 17,332, up from 16,098 in 2019).
Among the countries, Maharashtra, who have the highest tally copy Covid (66 lakh) and toll (1.4 lakh), recorded an increase in suicide of 25% among vendors, traders and small business owners.
The NCRB report said the 1,610 self-employed individuals took their own lives in Maharashtra by 2020 by fighting 1,289 in 2019.
‘People in the informal sector lose everything during Pandemic Nadu, who have maximum death in the Entrepreneurship category, with a weight log .
A 36% increase of 1.061 in 2019 was 1,447 in 2020.
Karnataka recorded a 102% increase in death (from 875 in 2019 to 1,772).
Incidentally, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recorded a higher number of suicides compared to other Indian countries.
Dr.
Vibhuti Patel, an economic professor of retirees from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, said the data showed that those in the informal sector “lost everything”.
“These are homemade people who can’t get out to make a living.
If they do it, they are brutal by the police.
Many of them have to queue for rations,” he said.
Dr.
Patel said vendors and small traders did not only suffer economic losses, “they lost their identity and pride”.
The Federation of retail traders of President Viren Shah’s welfare association said shop owners and traders in a lower and medium-sized group of income were the worst by pandemic.
“Is there a profit for the world of the company, leaving small shop owners without choices but suicide because they cannot pay loans and rent,” Shah said.
Shishir Joshi from the Mumbai NGO project that works with marginalized groups, “The Pandemi affected People at various levels.
For the small businessman, the pandemic does not only mean the loss of income, but the struggle to get a hospital bed for his family members and pay school fees for their children.
” Maharashtra topped the second consecutive charts among the 28 states.
and eight Union regions with 19,909 in 2020 against 18,916 years earlier.
Apart from self-employed, it is the agricultural sector in the most affected state.
The state has 4,006 suicide among farmers, agricultural cultivators and workers in 2020 against 3,927 cases in 2019.
Overall, suicide in Maharashtra and Mumbai rose 5.2% and 4.3% in 2019.
However, according to reports That, Delhi was among the cities with 3,025 cases in 2020 against 2,423 in 2019 (up 24.8%).
1.3% decline was reported in Chennai (2,430 in 2020 against 2,461 in 2019).
Bengaluru was third with a 5.5% increase and the fifth Ahmedabad with a leap of 14.2%.
The overall increase in all cities was 6.5 percent by 2020.

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