Impact of COVID-19 on the livelihood of Indian rural population

ABSTRACT

COVID-19 spread has impacted all shards of life of larger population around the world, the effect remained devastating in developing countries with poor to average health infrastructure. In many developing countries like India where agriculture always remain backbone of economy and power livelihood to large segment of rural masses, COVID-19 spread created huge consequences on general health, livelihoods, and sustainability of rural economy. Unrehearsed mechanism, processes, and policies has given a big blow to informal rural economy. The paper is an attempt to comprehensively measure the effect of COVID-19 on agriculture, economy, and livelihood of rural India. Research material including secondary data available for various aspect of rural economy has been explored along with various village centric studies conducted and published by different researchers. Researcher also tried to suggest how the livelihood and economy can be protected. © The Electrochemical Society