The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic and its consequent lockdown has caused immense crises to socio-economic structure along with profound physical and psychological distress among the people across the world. The implications of COVID 19 and its resultant shut down on psychological well-being has been progressively noticed among the people in terms of mental health including stress, anxiety, depression, frustration, loneliness, insecurity, fear, and uncertainty, etc. The adverse psychological effects of COVID 19 on account of socio-economic crises such as job insecurity, housing instability, discrimination and food insecurity have been more pronounced among the marginalized and deprived sections of population such as constructional workers, daily wage labourers, street venders and rickshaw pullers. Nonetheless, they have been more prone to victimization of covid-19 yet not an adequate attention has been paid towards their physical and psychological health status. However, being the backbone of informal economy they require the urgent attention towards consideration of their physical and mental fitness. In this context, the present study aims to explore the physical and psychological effects caused by COVID 19 and quarantine focusing exclusively on rickshaw pullers so as to draw the attention of academician, researchers and policy makers towards their critical condition so that a enough space should be given while formulating the welfare schemes for the impoverished sections of society. The study has been based on primary sources of data generated through field survey consisting 135 rickshaw pullers in Aligarh city who were selected randomly. The survey has been carried out in month of October, 2020. The overall result indicates that the rickshaw pullers have suffered from the severe mental health status as well as adverse implication on their physical health condition.
COVID-19, Lockdown, Physical health, Mental health, Rickshaw pullers, Aligarh City
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