MUMBAI : For the past week, Saket Parmanand has been living at his workplace, a large apartment complex in a suburb of Mumbai.
His home is about 5km away, but he, his seven fellow guards and a plumber have been asked to stay on the premises till the 21-day lockdown to curtail coronavirus ends on April 14. “I have no problem staying here.
The society provides beds, blankets, meals and tea. We spread out and sleep in the meeting hall. We could not have observed this kind of social distancing in the localities in which we live," says Parmanand.
The hours are longer though—he now works 12 hours a day, starting at 8pm, compared to the eight hours he used to put in earlier.