A 40-day lockdown has seen a majority of industries and establishments having to shut shop, with a large proportion of the workforce staring at an uncertain future.

This has given India’s trade-off between “Jaan" (life) and “Jahaan" (the world) centre-stage. The Centre, in anticipation of a potential backlash against the lockdown, directed all employers to pay wages to their workers for the period of the lockdown, with landlords also directed to not demand rent from workers (Union Directions).

The Union Directions have been issued under the Disaster Management Act. The authorities previously resorted to the century-old Epidemic Act, meant to tackle localised epidemics and not global pandemics.

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