the situation facing unorganised sector workers, who have lost jobs, was no different to that of daily-wage workers but in one sense worse, because now they would have to scout for work on a daily basis without having had the experience of doing this before. Speaking about self-employed Mudra entrepreneurs, Sen said that though the RBI has deferred three months’ payments on their loans, they too would lose income and their condition is unlikely to be any better than that of unemployed unorganised sector workers.

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