With shopping malls, restaurants, cinemas and airlines shut for business due to the coronavirus outbreak, people are discovering an unlikely benefit of the lockdown.
They are actually saving money. Siriesha Darba, 37, a Delhi-based consultant calculates that she has saved around ₹5,000 over the past month.
Money earlier spent on office commutes such as Uber or Ola rides and takeaway meals from restaurants now sits in her bank account, she estimates.
Pradeep Kaushik, 36, a Bengaluru-based software engineer notes that almost 30 per cent of his family’s income, which would normally be spent eating out, ordering food, mall shopping or going to movies has been saved during the lockdown. “This has helped us realise how much we'll save if we cut
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