Coronavirus impact: Confusion, despair grip MSME cluster in Okhla

A sense of hopelessness pervades the streets in Delhi's Okhla, with row of parked trucks and an ominous silence

“I don’t know who is better off. The labourers who fled and might not find job when they come back or me? I stayed back but I’m struggling to even buy daily groceries,” said Manoj Shukla, who works in a plastic products factory in Okhla Industrial area.
 

Shukla used to enjoy the bustle in the area. The crowd on the streets used to be a mix of young management graduates in their crisp white shirts sipping tea at a nearby thela and daily wager labourers like him out on a break from factories making everything from electronics to drugs.
 

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