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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

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On the deserted streets, hundreds of parked trucks and tempos are covered in dust. Photo: Dalip Kumar

Shreya Jai New Delhi
“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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