-ThePrint.in On 15 April, Yogi govt's health bulletin said UP recorded 104 Covid deaths in 24 hrs. But Lucknow alone saw 108 funerals that Day, and this is just at crematoriums & not cemeteries. Lucknow: “Humne (kabhie) itni dead bodies to dekhi hi nahin hai… wo ghat par platform bane hain, woh khali pade rahte the, (par) aaj pair rakhne ki jagah nahin hai, charon aur lashein hi lashein.” Amar Singh, 29, who...
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Amid tall poll promises, distress looms over north Bengal tea gardens -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu With no ownership of land or houses and denial of minimum wage, lakhs of workers continue to live in a vicious cycle of bondage plucking Over the past few elections, Benam Oraon, a tea garden worker at Nagrakata Tea Estate in West Bengal, attended several election meetings and kept a note of the promises which political parties made. This election, however, he is contesting the polls as a candidate from...
More »Reinforcing social welfare schemes to withstand crises -Rituparna Sanyal and Shraddha Shrivastava
-IDROnline.org How did India’s Public Distribution System adapt during COVID-19 and what can other social protection schemes learn from it? Social Protection (SP) broadly refers to a set of policies and programmes aimed at protecting people against poverty, vulnerability, and social exclusion throughout their life. Over the last 15 years, India has witnessed a growth in rights-based entitlements and systemic reforms to build a more inclusive SP system. These encompass the Mid-Day...
More »Wait for final rites get longer as crematoriums across Gujarat overburdened - Aditi Raja, Kamal Saiyed, Gopal B Kateshiya and Ritu Sharma
-The Indian Express For the relatives of deceased patients, queues begin from the wait at hospitals for their dear one's body, for hearse vans to take them to the resting place, to finding a furnace free at a crematorium -- the time for each disposal/cremation has increased because of the Covid-19 protocol. Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara: Donning a PPE suit Chirag Patel waited at the Vadaj crematorium in Ahmedabad for his turn...
More »India reports nearly 2 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, over 1000 deaths on April 14, 2021
-The Hindu Maharashtra, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat saw the most fatalities India registered 1,99,376 new COVID-19 cases on April 14. As many as 1,037 deaths were also recorded on the Day as of data updated at 12.24 a.m. IST on April 15. The figures do not include cases and deaths from Ladakh. The data is sourced from covid19india.org, an independent aggregator of daily COVID-19 figures. Over 14.11 lakh tests were conducted on April 13....
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