Poor are vulnerable, frail, battered, marginalized, voiceless, and victim of multiple social circumstances. The complex vulnerable existence always made them suffer and become double victims of any disaster, be it natural, human-made, or biological like pandemic COVID-19. Poverty in India is an outfall of a number of complex social realities, historical past, and present doldrums. Restrictions due to lockdown and a shrinking economy, the job market as the immediate impact caused a number of survival crises for the rural families. The situation of rural poor becomes even more aggravated, as the reverse migration and influx of population increased the consumption and demand for jobs that actually the rural livelihood sector can provide. While the pre-existing vulnerabilities of the poor are exposed in the pandemic, the government's response toward them showed its restricted efficiency. The pandemic COVID-19 has taken human-life hostage and effective sustainable strategies to manage the crisis of the poor vulnerable section were essential for long-term resolution. Thus, the professional challenge ahead is designing a sustainable strategy of working in such pandemic situations that social workers are professionally skilled to handle similar challenges.

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COVID-19 大流行期间印度农村贫困人口的脆弱性：设计可持续应急响应的社会工作视角

穷人是脆弱的、虚弱的、遭受打击的、被边缘化的、没有发言权的，是多种社会环境的受害者。复杂的脆弱存在总是让他们遭受痛苦，成为任何灾难的双重受害者，无论是自然灾难、人为灾难，还是像新冠病毒（COVID-19）这样的生物灾难。印度的贫困是许多复杂的社会现实、历史和当前低迷的结果。封城限制和经济萎缩，对就业市场的直接影响给农村家庭带来了许多生存危机。农村贫困人口的处境更加恶化，人口的逆向迁移和流入增加了农村民生部门本来可以提供的消费和就业需求。虽然穷人本来就存在的脆弱性在疫情中暴露无遗，但政府对穷人的应对却显示出其有限的效率。新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行夺走了人的生命，有效的可持续战略来管理贫困弱势群体的危机对于长期解决至关重要。因此，未来的专业挑战是设计一种在这种大流行情况下工作的可持续策略，使社会工作者具备应对类似挑战的专业技能。