Lucknow, April 15 -- e |
The lockdown has forced people to go for occupational change. Roadside carpenters, scrap dealers and barbers left jobless in recent weeks due to lockdown have now opted for hawking vegetables in residential colonies, giving a stiff challenge to routine hawkers.
Chunnu was a carpenter before lockdown was enforced. He worked from a roadside shop and used to fix sofas, repair chairs and other furniture and earned between Rs 400 and Rs 500 per day. But things changed after the lockdown was imposed.
"After being told that I cannot open my shop, I stayed home for a few days. After I exhausted my savings, my friend suggested that I should sell vegetables in residential colonies as people were afraid to come out. That is...