Summer is usually peak business season for Duraimurugan M T, a juice seller near Kathipara Junction. But as the lockdown forced him to shut shop, the sole breadwinner of the family, with no clue as to how he was going to feed his family of four, slipped into depression. “I could not focus on anything. I was depressed over not being able to provide for my family,” Duraimurugan recollected. What did not strike him then was that the street vendor card he had obtained from the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) before the lockdown would help him sail through. A volunteer…
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