Fuzzy Computing in Data Science

9Use of Fuzzy Logic for Psychological Support to Migrant Workers of Southern Odisha (India)

Sanjaya Kumar Sahoo and Sukanta Chandra Swain*

KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

Abstract

People migrate with lot of ambitions to turn their economic status around. In Odisha, particularly in the southern part of the Odisha state, there are many families where the migrant worker is the only earning member in the family and also migration is the only option to choose. Even if the government and NGOs have taken so many steps for the betterment of the migrant workers, improper way of working continues and also migrant workers are being taken for granted. The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has shattered the dreams of migrant workers as they have been the hardest hit of the virus both from lives and livelihoods fronts. This paper is to present the psychological status of migrant workers during COVID-19 and for the purpose, the migrant workers of two southern districts (Khurdha and Gajapati) of Odisha have been considered. Moreover, how fuzzy logic can be of help in improving the psychological state of such migrants has also been highlighted in this paper.

Keywords: Fuzzy logic, COVID-19, effect, psychological status, migrant workers, Odisha

9.1 Introduction

People migrate to occupy a better socioeconomic status in the society by tolerating so many difficulties like getting treated as outsider, deprived of getting proper hygienic food, leaving in a unhealthy atmosphere, fear, ...