Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

Vol 28, Feb Suppl. Issue, 2022; Page No.(534-538)

A STUDY ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID 19 AMONG DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF PEOPLE

Kanchan Devi

Abstract

Covid 19 or Corona virus has been creating instability in all most all the aspect of human life. The foremost Obective of this paper is to find out the extent of impact of Corona virus in context to a village of Biswanath district of Assam. The study is conducted with both primary and secondary sources of data. 90 household are chosen at random using stratified random sampling procedure. The findings are derived from the random sample of ninety households. The study reveals that the middle class people are the biggest sufferers during the COVID 19 pandemic, followed by poorer section and the richer section of the people are more or less neutral sufferer during the pandemic. The study also found out the about the pattern of employment of the household and current source of economic activities of the people of the particular area. Thus this paper is an attempt to analyze the economic impact of Covid19 among different classes of people living in Golia, a village from Biswanath district of Assam.