: Job losses among SCs were three times higher than for upper castes: Economist Ashwini Deshpande #IndiaNEWS About 10 crore to 12 crore Indians lost their jobs in the immediate aftermath of the countrywide

Job losses among SCs were three times higher than for upper castes: Economist Ashwini Deshpande #IndiaNEWS
About 10 crore to 12 crore Indians lost their jobs in the immediate aftermath of the countrywide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, IndiaSpend reported in April. But the lockdown has impacted the disadvantaged caste groups with a far greater magnitude than the upper castes, found a new paper investigating if the pandemic is a “leveller??? of social distinctions. It noted that “while all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown, the job losses for the lowest-ranked castes are greater by a factor of three???.“Pre-existing faultlines, structural inequalities based on caste identity reveal themselves yet again in the immediate post-lockdown job losses,??? Ashwini Deshpande, professor of economics at Ashoka University and co-author of the paper, told IndiaSpend in an interview. In a paper in March, Deshpande and co-author Rajesh Ramchandran showed that children from socially disadvantaged groups are more likely to become stunted. That incidence of stunting among upper-caste children in India is similar to the national average for the low middle-income countries while stunting among Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes children are around 10 percentage to 15 percentage points higher.During the lockdown-induced economic distress, “those with precarious daily wage and casual jobs have been the most vulnerable to...Read more

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