Srinagar, Aug. 10 -- The shocks and after-shocks of COVID-19 pandemic flow across social, health and economic contours and it also exposed deep structural vulnerabilities in India's labour market, particularly within the industrial sector. Assuming COVID-19 as a surprising and untimely independent variable, it also proved as a litmus test for labour market, organized and/or unorganized labour market hitting people irrespective of place, organization, age and gender. Using secondary data from the CMIE Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS), the study reveals that vulnerable groups experienced notably higher job losses than their peers. The analysis indicates that marginalized castes (SC-ST-OBC), younger individuals, women, and non-regul...