Asin Sharma lies idle on a cot near his restaurant by a highway linking India’s capital New Delhi with the northern state of Punjab. A temporarily closed restaurant along a national highway in Murthal, Haryana STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE Last year, the government extended federal guarantees on bank loans for small businesses including hotels and restaurants, as well as a moratorium …
The Quint travelled 1,300 Kms from Delhi to Ranchi in Jharkhand to report on how people, whose lives depend on India's busy national highways, are surviving during the COVID-19 lockdown. We also spoke to tea stall owners and petrol pump staff, who described how business was next to nil. Lockdown regulations were being strictly followed at the Jharkhand border, where …
