Stiftung Calcutta Rescue In April 2020, India entered a stringent lockdown in response to rising cases of Covid-19 disease. The economic impact of the lockdown was felt most acutely among India’s poorest communities unable to avail themselves of opportunities to work from home and in the absence of a robust furlough scheme to support wages for daily labourers and other unskilled workers.
To assess food security and the financial, educational, health- and wellbeing-related impact of the lockdown, Calcutta Rescue (CR) developed a questionnaire to consecutively survey slum community residents in Kolkata.
