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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The lockdown has severely impacted nearly 24,000 enterprises under the Kudumbashree and over 64,000 women entrepreneurs have lost their livelihood, according to a study by the women’s collective. The study also pointed out that if the present situation continues, the women will land in a huge debt trap. Sajith Sukumaran, COO of Kudumbashree National Resource Organisation, and Anish Kumar M S, state programme manager, Startup Village Entrepreneurship programme, conducted the study. Tailoring units and sanitiser manufacturing units had received a boost following the lockdown. Though Kudumbashree units received bulk orders from many districts for production of face masks, the absence of raw materials played spoilsport..