Delhi's Poor Face Impossible Choice: Work in Lethal Heat or Starve

Millions of informal workers face heat-related illnesses including dehydration, kidney stress, and heat exhaustion; some collapse or become disoriented; prolonged exposure prevents body recovery during sleep.

Beneath Delhi's scorching skies, where temperatures routinely exceed 45 degrees Celsius, nearly 90 percent of India's workforce labors without contracts, safety nets, or the luxury of rest — because for them, stopping work means not eating. These informal workers — rickshaw drivers, street vendors, domestic cleaners — inhabit a cruel paradox: the very survival that compels them outdoors is being slowly eroded by the heat they cannot escape. As climate scientists warn that temperatures are approaching the outer limits of human tolerance, the question being forced into the open is not merely one

Delhi's Poor Face Impossible Choice: Work in Lethal Heat or Starve

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