Chennai: Economic doctors caused by pandemics appear to have a long-term impact on people who have susceptible and weaker parts of the community, according to the analysis carried out by tafteesh, a platform for human anti-traffickers.
Analysis of income and loan information from 335 human trafficking survivors, commercial sexual exploitation and sex workers from West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh have found that 201 or 60% of them have taken loans at the time of this study – in May 2021 – to overcome financial difficulties Those created by pandemics and kuncian.
It seems that people who are included in this vulnerable part are far more economically devastated during the second wave, which began in India around March, rather than in the first wave when they have access to free rations and cash support provided by the state and state governments.
However, this time, the government’s focus is largely to strengthen the health care system, which somehow loses parts of this person accessing PDS and their needs for food for fortune without much or no income encourages them to switch to high-risk loans available around them , From 201 who have taken loans, 123 or 60% have taken high-risk loans, which far exceeded their family payment capacity and income.
The average monthly minimum needs reported by research respondents are around Rs 6,300, while more than 30% (or 102) families report that they have no income during the second phase of the pandemic.
The study also revealed that banks or microfinance institutions (MFIs) have not relached the payment schedule or set the moratorium period for their payment at the time of scarcity of vulnerable cash.
Most people take new loans to pay for existing loans, which show debt traps, which in turn increases their risk of being a contract workforce and victims of trafficking people.
Women are also very risky because they are in front of all their family debt, and they tend to be demanded for failing to pay in payments or subject to harassment by loan up and their recovery agents.
This analysis also shows that the limitation of pandemic and companion has worsened the economic conditions of women in sex work that have been in a precarious situation outside of social protection mechanisms.
During this period, the number of debts they increased quietly.
Of the 142 survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and women in the sex work analyzed for this study, 99 has taken loans ranging from Rs 5,000 and Rs 5.50,000 during the second wave.