Amid high security and restrictions in the New Delhi Area in Delhi with closure of shops and street vendors, and also online delivery, the lives of daily-wage vendors are affected.

Although essential services are available but not being able to open shops for three days will affect the business and earning of many individuals.

A report by HindustanTimes shared the plight of daily wage earners, like for Sunil Kumar he thinks about the temporary closure of his humble artificial jewellery business that he runs on a footpath in Janpath. He has also calculated his losses — around ₹6,000 over the next few G20 Summit days till Sunday. Kumar says he earns up to ₹1,500 a day.

Some savings, and borrowing a few hundred rupees will help him get through the days. NDMC ordered hawkers like Kumar to shut shop.

"There are hardly any customers today itself and NDMC officials have asked us to shut our shops from Thursday,” says Kumar. For many daily wage earners, even three days of no work, is enough to plunge them into a fresh cycle of debt. Around 500 metres from Kumar’s shop, auto driver Ram Kumar Mahato, 30, says that he will not pay the vehicle rent on those days, as he will hardly get any rides. A resident of Minto Road, he added that he will have to borrow ration from shopkeepers and pay them back in instalments over the next month from his average daily earning of ₹1,000 a day. More than half of it is spent on fuel and auto rent, he says.

An unhappy Raju, 62, a cobbler on Connaught Place, opined that the public should not face losses due to the Summit.

The sentiments are echoed through the NDMC area. Gig workers too worry about the routes they will take to deliver services across the NDMC area. App-based delivery workers say they have been given the option of changing their zone and operating from different areas over the next three days. However, some are wary to do so, as the process to change their location back may be time-consuming.