Livelihood issues of the populace of eildon hall estate, lindula area during covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Livelihood is an integral part of human existence. The COVID-19 pandemic hits the whole world and its economy is already fragile. Furthermore, the economy has declined, and became vulnerable during the COVID-19 outbreak. So that the middle and lower economy populace have been on the front line in the severely affected list. Lives, livelihood, and health have been unprecedented due to the impact due to pandemic. Individuals, small retail businesses, and other industries also have undergone various decline in its scale, income, wage, and sales in multiple fields. Accordingly, this study is based on a village called Eildon Hall where the livelihood of most of the people is tea plucking (estate workers), and the pandemic has decadently dominated their livelihood. The contribution of the study is to explore the difficulties of lower and middle economy people during the pandemic. This paper attempts to reveal the defects via primary and secondary data collection methods such as, observation, interview, and focus group discussion were the primary data collection method, on the other hand, journals, reports, research articles, and also published and unpublished sources, as well as internet also used to gather the secondary data. The results explore some prominent issues of populace such as economic issues, health and medical defects, shortcoming of wage, employment, and poverty are the ardent livelihood issues of Eildon Hall during the COVID pandemic. Above 94% of the people in the study area are hustling against the hidden war of poverty here. Albeit, the proposed recommendations could be able to reduce the affront of the defects and problems of the people in the village Eildon Hall. Moreover, the lifestyle of the people should be converted to fulfill the need of domestic and infrastructure. Otherwise, those people will be pushed to a worse position than they are now. And there is no doubt that the future of the children there is in question.