74% in rural India satisfied with Modi govt's handling of Covid situation


New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS): Almost three-fourth of rural India is satisfied with the manner in which the Narendra Modi government has handled the Covid 19 pandemic.

This is as per a first-of-its-kind national survey on the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on rural India.

'Gaon Connection' has released its findings that reflect the untold miseries faced by the rural citizens during the lockdown, including mounting debt, increasing hunger, complete loss of livelihoods and inability to access healthcare.

However, 74 per cent of the rural respondents said that they were satisfied with the manner in which the Narendra Modi-led government has handled the Covid-19 pandemic.

Some 78 per cent respondents said they were also satisfied with the steps taken by their own state governments.

The survey, based on face-to-face detailed interviews with 25,300 respondents, was carried out in 179 districts across 20 states and three Union Territories by Gaon Connection Insights, the data and insights arm of one of India's largest rural media platforms.

The New Delhi-based Centre for Study of Developing Societies (Lokniti-CSDS) designed the survey and analysed the data.

The key findings of the survey are that more than 68 per cent rural Indians faced "high" to "very high" monetary difficulty during the lockdown.

About 23 per cent rural Indians borrowed money during the lockdown, 8 per cent sold a valuable possession (phone, watch etc.), 7 per cent mortgaged jewellery, while 5 per cent sold or mortgaged land.

As per the survey, 78 per cent of the respondents saw their work coming to a "complete standstill" or "a standstill to a large extent" during the lockdown.

Skilled workers and manual (unskilled) labourers were the hardest hit. Work shut down completely for 60 per cent skilled workers and 64 per cent manual labourers.

Only 20 per cent respondents said that they got work under MGNREGA during the lockdown. Chhattisgarh reported the highest percentage of such households at 70 per cent, followed by Uttarakhand (65 per cent) and Rajasthan (59 per cent). Gujarat and the UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh reported the lowest work under MGNREGA at 2 per cent and 4 per cent, respectively.

Close to 23 per cent migrant workers returned home walking during the lockdown, while over 33 per cent migrant workers said that they again want to go back to the cities to work.

Forty-two per cent households with pregnant women said that these women did not get pregnancy check-ups and vaccination during the lockdown. The lowest percentages were in West Bengal (29 per cent) and Odisha (33 per cent).

Fifty-six per cent dairy and poultry farmers said they faced difficulty in taking their produce to the buyers while 35 per cent said they did not get the right price for their produce, as per the survey.

  

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    Media are supposed to be the watchdogs in a Democracy and not the caged parrots of the ruling party and the Govt.

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  • Alwin, Mangalore

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    What is achievement of 3 rd place and 5 place in the world and first place in Asia with low testing and without medical facilities and spreading to villages with out proper guidance and confusion in medicine and death of people on roads ambulance with out hospital facility. God alone know s how many deaths entry left and no proper care to doctors health workers.

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  • SDC, Mangalore

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    I wonder whether these surveys are fabricated. Not even once ever since 2014 have anyone known to me, my family or friends has been a part of it. How then they can say 74%of India?

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  • Bhavya Baliga, Udupi

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    Naturally, the unsatisfied 26% belong to chor-lutera-dakus who couldn't spin money illegally and pocket 80% of the government grants!

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  • Alexies Saldanha, Kudla/Melbourne, Australia

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    Because there is no other leader in the ruling party, as well as opposition to challenge PM Modi.
    Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra, Mayawathi, Akilesh Yadev etc are not competent neither do they have mass appeal.
    This is the problem, may be after Modi steps down, there might be slight chance for others.
    This is the reality of Indian politics.
    God save our democracy.

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  • Concerned citizen, Mangaluru

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    Rural india needs to get educated

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  • Tom, udupi

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    Educated politician called international experts

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  • Rajesh Kumar, Mangalore

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    Modi can proudly say he has created 2cr Jobs after Coronavirus spread.

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  • Ruben Pinto, Mangalore/Australia

    Tue, Aug 11 2020

    I think his handling of the Ram Janam Boomi temple will see him win 2 more terms.

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  • Veer, Nagpur

    Mon, Aug 10 2020

    Thank God rural India is not infected with corona. Remaining 26% know about corona virus.

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  • GURKA, Mangaluru

    Mon, Aug 10 2020

    Even I can predict his victory in NEXT elections since all the system remote control in the HANDS of MODIJI including that CHOTU BEEM.

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  • Sahil, Mangaluru

    Mon, Aug 10 2020

    Heading towards first place in the world 74 percentage satisfied. Mystery.

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