Working Paper No.: WP 156 - Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social

Email: sdesai@ncaer.org Disclaimer: The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in the paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Governing Body or Management of NCAER. [...] Page | 4 Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India | Pallavi Choudhuri, Santanu Pramanik and Sonalde Desai Following the onset of the pandemic, 50 per cent of the scheduled respondents in the DMAS sample were interviewed using telephones. [...] The Page | 8 Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India | Pallavi Choudhuri, Santanu Pramanik and Sonalde Desai corresponding numbers for private sector workers in the organised and the unorganised sectors are 40.8 per cent and 48.5 per cent, respectively, clearly pointing to a wedge between the public sector and the private sector. [...] Page | 20 Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India | Pallavi Choudhuri, Santanu Pramanik and Sonalde Desai For the DCVTS-3 sample, while 15.3 per cent of the households without a ration card received food support, about 56.6 per cent of the non-ration card holders (comprising 20.5 per cent of the sample) reported an unmet need, suggesting the need for adop. [...] We further argue that this is unlikely to determine the total amount of cash received by a household, as the amount of relief received was determined on the basis of the schemes chosen by the Government (Centre or State), with the selection criteria decided at the level of the concerned Government, and which can hence be treated as an excluded instrument.