-The Hindu How the public health versus economic health trade-off can be resolved during this pandemic As it fights COVID-19 with its meagre healthcare resources, India has chosen to bring the economy to a near halt with no clear idea of how many lives can be saved in this manner. What is going to be the cost of this decision? The 21-day Lockdown will reduce the gross value added (GVA) during this...
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Amartya Sen writes: Overcoming a pandemic may look like fighting a war, but the real need is far from that
-The Indian Express Amartya Sen writes: Tackling a social calamity is not like fighting a war which works best when a leader can use top-down power to order everyone to do what the leader wants — with no need for consultation. In contrast, what is needed for dealing with a social calamity is participatory governance and alert public discussion. We have reason to take pride in the fact that India is the...
More »Coronavirus: Centre concerned over polarisation on religious lines -S Vijay Kumar
-The Hindu Ensure safety of health workers, it says Chennai: The Centre has expressed serious concern over the “polarising public opinion on religious lines” against the backdrop of a particular community being targeted as being responsible for the spread of COVID-19 in the country. In a note issued to all States on Tuesday, the Union Government said a sizeable number of non-Muslims was getting a perception that a particular community was not taking...
More »Explained: The ‘Bhilwara model’ of ‘ruthless containment’ to stop coronavirus -Deep Mukherjee
-The Indian Express Bhilwara in Rajasthan was one of the early hotspots of the COVID-19 outbreak. The government responded with extraordinarily aggressive measures — and the ‘Bilwara model’ could now be replicated elsewhere in the country. Jaipur: Almost two weeks into the nationwide Lockdown, with the case count from the novel coronavirus disease climbing to 4,281 (with 111 deaths) as of Monday night, the Union Health Ministry has said that over 80%...
More »Seema Kulkarni, Senior Fellow at Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management-SOPPECOM (Pune), interviewed by Renu Deshpande Dhole (Hindustan Times)
-Hindustan Times Seema Kulkarni of the Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (Soppecom), Pune speaks about supporting 500 single and widowed women who do not have ration cards or bank accounts, access food supplies * What is the situation of agricultural village economy in Maharashtra after the Lockdown? Maharashtra has been facing an agrarian crisis for some time now. Post-Covid-19 and the Lockdown the situation has only worsened. Harvesting operations have come to...
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