The World Bank Group recently said, coronavirus (COVID-19) is a crisis like no other the world has faced estimating that the pandemic could push about 49 million people into extreme poverty in 2020. A large share of the new poor will be concentrated in countries that are already struggling will increase with estimated 16 million in South Asia.

With 90% of our people working in the informal economy, India is grappling with a herculean task of protecting these workers, their livelihoods &