NEW DELHI—India’s middle-class households are culling their armies of domestic helpers amid the Covid-19 pandemic, eliminating a crucial source of jobs and spurring an appliance-buying binge.
Ila Rallan used to have five different home assistants troop through her apartment in Mumbai every day: one cook, three cleaners and one nanny. At the beginning of India’s lockdown, they all returned to their villages. Additionally, her building wouldn’t let in outsiders.
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