Vol. 3, Issue 1, Part A (2021)

This study was conducted to investigate the psycho-social effects of lockdown period among people of Bihar. It affected all the aspects of life like: social, educational, professional, behavioural and psychological etc. It also affected the economical situations of factory workers working in factories in big cities and how they returned their homes without vehicles and what health problems they faced during lockdown period. For this purpose a sample of 100 people were taken from Nawada district of Bihar. All the samples were age ranging between16 to 45 year and were randomly chosen from different social groups of Nawada district. This selection was based on incidental-cum-purposive sampling. Data was analyzed on SPSS software. Result shows that lockdown due to corona virus affected the people not only economically but socially, educationally and psychologically also. Uncertainty about future, anxiety, depressed mood, poor concentration and hopelessness can be seen during this period. The biggest anxiety in this period was found about losing of job; because many people lost their jobs due to shutdown of factories in cities. The extending time of lockdown also worsen the situation.