-The Hindu Less than 30% government schools had computers: Education Ministry data. In the academic year that ended with school closures due to COVID-19, only 22% of schools in India had Internet facilities, according to Education Ministry data released on Thursday. Among government schools, less than 12% had Internet in 2019-20, while less than 30% had functional computer facilities. This affected the kind of digital education options available to schools during the...
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Trafficking survivors took more loans at higher rates, finds study -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Second wave of COVID-19 forced vulnerable women to take high risk loans beyond their repaying capacity Kolkata: Months after she was rescued, 16-year-old Asma, a resident of Sunderbans in South 24 Parganas, took a loan of ₹20,000 from local moneylenders in May 2020 to rebuild her life. The first wave of COVID-19 had made it difficult to get any work. A year later, in May 2021, Ms. Asma, who was...
More »Maharashtra: Short-Staffed Hospitals Deprive COVID Patients of Proper Care in Beed -Parth MN/ PARI
-TheWire.in COVID-19 struck like a bolt from the blue for the residents of Beed, who were already struggling with agrarian crisis, leaving them at the mercy of crumbling public health facilities. “I don’t know what finally caused her death but I know she did not get the attention she deserved.” Subash Kabade says this, describing his sister’s death. The night before his sister, Lata Survase, died in the Civil Hospital in Maharashtra’s Beed...
More »More than 2,000 kids in Delhi lost either one or both parents to COVID-19: DCPCR survey -Deepali Sharma
-Hindustan Times As many as 651 children lost their mothers and 1, 311 lost their fathers to the viral infection. The Delhi government has decided to pay compensation of ₹2,500 per month to such children. More than 2,000 children in Delhi have lost either or both their parents to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) since the pandemic hit the country last year in May, according to a survey conducted by the Delhi Commission...
More »COVID-19 compensation: SC pulls up NDMA for ‘failing to perform its duty’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu National Disaster Management Authority given six weeks to frame the guidelines for fixing the ex gratia meant for the families of those who died because of the pandemic. The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), of which the Prime Minister is the ex officio chairperson, for “failing to perform its duty” to recommend ex gratia assistance for families of those who lost their loved...
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