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Article History

Received: 6 July 2024

Accepted: 11 March 2025

First Online: 21 March 2025

Competing interests

: Navajyoti Samanta was a member of the Editorial Board of this journal at the time of acceptance for publication. The manuscript was assessed in line with the journal’s standard editorial processes, including its policy on competing interests. There are no other competing interests.

: The ethics approval was provided by the NUJS Research Ethics Committee in January 2022. It covered the collection of data from respondents in West Bengal, India. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.

: An information sheet in Bengali was given to all respondents, the information was also briefly explained focusing on the purpose of the research, how the data will be used and then signature was taken from the respondents in the consent form.