-The Hindu A package for Rs. 5-lakh crore-₹6-lakh crore targeted across different sections of society and the economy, is feasible India has just finished a day of curfew and clapping to practise ‘social distancing’ and to express gratitude to the millions of health and essential services workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a laudable initiative by the Prime Minister to rally the nation together. The nation is truly at war, as...
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Migrant workers’ rush chokes transit points in the East: Where do we go, what do we do now? -Abhishek Angad, Santosh Singh & Ravik Bhattacharya
-The Indian Express An official in Ranchi said about 3,000-4,000 people reached the city on an average every day over the past week on the Alappuzha-Dhanbad Express. Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi: From Jharkhand to Bihar and West Bengal, governments scrambled Monday to cope with the return of thousands of migrant workers from cities and states as far away as Kerala amid an unprecedented 10-day shutdown of rail and inter-state bus services to contain...
More »Concerned citizens write to the Centre and states for delivering emergency relief to the poor, marginalised and the vulnerable
-Press note by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 24 March, 2020 A group of concerned citizens have appealed the Central and state governments to deliver emergency relief to informal labour force, agricultural workers, small and marginal farmers, MGNREGA workers, old-age pensioners, widows, the differently-abled, slum dwellers, the homeless and other such vulnerable communities through programmes like National Food Security Act (NFSA), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Pensions, Ujjwala scheme,...
More »AIIMS Says Many Doctors Forcibly Evicted by Landlords Fearing Coronavirus, Stranded on Roads
-News18.com The AIIMS Resident Doctor’s Association has asked the government to issue an order prohibiting landlords and home-owners from evicting medical professionals working tirelessly amid the outbreak. New Delhi: Several doctors and nurses at AIIMS have been forcibly evicted from their rented homes by landlords due to the fear that it would make them more susceptible to novel coronavirus, the premier hospital’s Resident Doctor’s Association has said in a plea for help...
More »While people clapped for those in front line fighting virus, Telangana landlords leave doctors homeless
-The New Indian Express The latter called the doctors ‘dirty’ and do not want them as tenants fearing the spread of coronavirus in the locality. HYDERABAD: People across the country clapped and clanged utensils to applaud the doctors and nurses who are in the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 on Janata Curfew day. But it was at the same time that doctors of MGM Hospital in Warangal were forced out onto...
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