As many as 48-66 percent of people belonging to rural areas, and various educational, social, income and age groups have expressed hope that lives would return to the normal track at the end of the Covid-19 outbreak, according to the latest IANS-CVoter COVID tracker survey.
As per the survey, 48.3 percent people staying in the rural areas said they are ‘very hopeful’ that their own, as well as their family members’ lives, will return to the normal track as and when the dreaded virus goes away, while 38 percent said they are ‘somewhat hopeful’ and 7.1 percent said they are ‘not too hopeful’.
The numbers went up in the semi-urban areas where 56.5 percent said they are ‘very hopeful’, 25.1 percent ‘somewhat hopeful’ and 7.4 percent ‘not too hopeful’.
In the urban areas, 58.6 percent people said they are ‘very hopeful’ that their lives will come back on track after the outbreak, while 25.9 percent said they are ‘somewhat hopeful’ and only 2.4 percent said they are ‘not too hopeful’.
Higher education groups with 66.1 percent of people are very hopeful about normal lives, followed by 56.2 percent middle education sector and 55.4 percent lower education sector.
Similarly, 63.4 percent of people in the higher income groups said they are ‘very hopeful’ about normalcy returning post-COVID-19, followed by 58.6 percent in the middle-income groups and 54 percent in the lower-income groups.
Among social groups, 67.5 percent Christians said they are ‘very hopeful’, followed by 61.5 percent Sikhs, 61.1 percent Muslims, 59.1 percent Scheduled Tribes (STs), 58.5 percent Upper Caste Hindus (UCH), 55.4 percent Other Backward Classes (OBC), 51.7 percent Scheduled Caste and 54.5 percent belonging to the other category.
In the eastern part of the country, 60 percent of people said they are ‘very hopeful’ about normal lives post the pandemic, followed by 58.5 percent in the north, 57.8 percent in the west and 51.1 percent in the south.
Despite the pandemic hurting the old-age people the most, 60.5 percent of those above the age of 60 years sounded ‘very hopeful’ that their lives will return to the normal track, followed by 58.9 percent in the middle-aged category (45-60 years), 55.3 percent in the young age category (25-45 years) and 56.9 percent in the fresher category (below 25 years).
Gender wise, 58.6 percent of males and 55.2 percent of females said they are ‘very hopeful’ of normalcy returning post-COVID-19.
