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The Challenges of Managing a Hunger Crisis Amidst a Public Health Emergency -Ashwin Parulkar and Mukta Naik

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A Centre for Policy Research ground report points to a mass hunger crisis among migrant workers in Delhi post-COVID-19 lockdown. It highlights the current disconnect between the government’s well-meaning responses to the crisis of hunger and health among the most vulnerable populations.

The much-awaited relief package for the poor announced by the Union finance minister on March 26 in the wake of the COVID-19 related lockdown in the country has entirely left out migrant labourers who have consistently fallen through the cracks of the social welfare system in India. They are ineligible for PDS rations at destination, face barriers in registering themselves on the Building and Construction Welfare Boards, and often lack IDs and paperwork to access any targeted schemes with eligibility criteria.

Our ground report on the repercussions of the 21-day lockdown  on vulnerable populations in Delhi reveals that it has unleashed a mass crisis of hunger among migrant daily wage workers in Delhi who, now unemployed, lack money to buy their own food and have lost access to doles usually available at religious institutions, which are now also shut down.

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