Tailoring Business flourishes amid Corona crisis |
As the Covid-19 cases increase in the country, small businesses have been hit badly especially in the semi-urban or rural areas where the livelihood of the self employed depend on people visiting them. Though the cessation of economic activity might have affected many businesses in the city but it has also provided employment for a few. One such business is of the tailors, who have started stitching face masks and selling sanitisers on the roadside. Tailors earn 500-700 rupees per day by making masks. Their shops were running into heavy losses earlier, and were shut during the lockdown. But now they are confident that they can bear their house rents and other debts if this business runs for another six months. Ever since readymade garments swamped the market, local tailors have been edged out. Even the local governments have never cared much for the tailoring community. Tailors who were earning 150 to 250 rupees per day earlier are getting 4 times income from the new business line. Post lockdown, the demand for masks has put their business back on track. This has helped them in a number of ways and now they can afford better living conditions for their family.
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