Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Geeeta lives in a jhuggi- Jhopri cluster next to the middle-class residential complexes in Delhi’s Dwarka. She runs a family of seven - an old mother, widowed sister and four children. After losing her contractual job as a housekeeper in an educational institution last year, she took up domestic work in at least three houses. She is on the lookout for more houses to work in to avoid starvation at home. But the Covid-19 lockdown, in its second prolonged extension, has made survival precarious for Geeta and thousands of others like her. One employer warned her not to come to work without any assurance that she’d be paid for the days of absence.
