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 Crime Crime National Records (NCRB) Deaths & Soicide Report 2020.
Experts surge suicide in This group – from 9,052 in 2019 to 11,716 by 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 had the highest Covid Cengkis (66 lakh) and the death toll (1.4 lakh), recorded an increase in suicide of 25% among vendors, traders and small business owners.
The NCRB report said 1,610 such an entrepreneurial individual took their own lives in Maharashtra by 2020 against 1,289 in 2019.
Tamil Nadu, who had maximum death in the Entrepreneur category, registered 36% increased from 1,061 in 2019 to 1,447 by 2020.
Karnataka recorded a 102% increase in death (from 875 in 2019 to 1,772 by 2020).
Incidentally, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recorded a higher number of suicides compared to other Indian countries.
Dr.
Vibhuti Patel, retired economic professor of the network, Mumbai, said the findings of NCRB reflected the fact that people in the informal sector “lost everything”.
“These are homemade people who cannot come out to make a living.
If they do it, they are brutalized 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.
“There are benefits only for industrialists and the company’s world, leaving small shop owners without choice but suicide because they cannot pay loans and rent,” Shah said.
Shishir Joshi from the Mumbai NGO project that works closely with marginalized groups during locking said, “The pandemic affects 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 UT 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 on 3,927 cases in 2019.