-TheWire.in At a time when the Rabi crop is ready for harvest and the Kharif crop will be sown, quick and effective policy responses are required. Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, India has announced a nationwide 21-day lockdown, shutting down all businesses except essential services. The government has assured that the supply of food items and other necesSITies won’t be hindered during this period. While social distancing has been adopted as a measure...
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Explainer: What are the various relief measures announced by State Governments? -Bharath Kancharla
-Factly.in Following the 21-day nationwide lockdown to tackle the spread of COVID-19, the central & state governments have announced various relief measures. Here is a compilation of the relief measures announced by state governments. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented SITuation. It is already known that the Government of India has declared a Nation-wide lockdown for 21 days that began on 25 March 2020 to contain the spread of...
More »Dreze and Rajan see dark clouds, list options
-PTI/ The Telegraph Social unrest as a result of the lockdown had already started: Dreze The Indian macroeconomic SITuation is bleak and, economically, the country is facing possibly its greatest emergency since Independence, renowned economists Jean Dreze and Raghuram Rajan have said. In a blog, Rajan said the country needed to plan for the post-lockdown phase and made several suggestions. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Jean Drèze, Belgian-born Indian economist and right-to-food activist, interviewed by Preetha Nair (Outlook India)
-Outlook India Indian Economist Jean Drèze, in an interview with Outlook, says that because of the Coronavirus lockdown, there won’t be any employment under MNREGA now and Bihar will be the worst-hit. Belgian-born Indian economist, Jean Dreze, says that the central government needs to take immediate measures to address the SITuation that has emerged in the wake of mass exodus of migrant workers due to the Coronavirus lockdown. In an interview with...
More »Size of the population susceptible to coronavirus infection is significant
Between 25th and 30th of March, 2020, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India has more than doubled i.e. from 519 to 1,251, according to the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). In a span of 6 days, the total number of deaths from COVID-19 has more than trebled i.e. from 9 to 32. In a health SITuation like this, when the coronavirus...
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