Hard Times: This Delhi taxi stand owner tried to pay salaries despite no earnings during lockdown
In 2019, Scroll.in’s Hard Times series sought to explain and illustrate how India’s slowest economic growth in a decade was affecting ordinary people. This followed reporting by Scroll.in in 2016 and 2017 on the effects that demonetisation had on the lives of Indians around the country.
As the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 crisis, Hard Times now takes a look at the impact of India’s draconian lockdown on individuals and firms from all corners of the economy. Read all of the pieces in the Lockdown Hard Times series here.
Fifty-five year old Gurmeet Singh has been running a taxi service with his three elder brothers in Delhi since 1982. The company, named Guru Teg Bahadur Taxi Stand, started off with just one car that the brothers would take turns to drive within Delhi and across the country when they got a client.
Over the years, the business grew. By 2005, they had around 25 cars and nearly 20 drivers working for them, along with an office and a taxi stand in South Delhi’s Soami Nagar.
But that changed a few years later after cab services like Ola and Uber became more frequently used. By 2020, the business still continued to make ends meet because of tourism but it had scaled down its operations and was...
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