-Article-14.com Despite appeals not to deploy them for election duty in the midst of a pandemic, teachers were made to work, as the government went back on promises of safety. We spoke to families of nine dead teachers, dealing with the loss of wage-earners, grief, anger and fear Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): “I lost my wife and my baby, who would have come into this world soon.” The voice of Deepak Agrahari, 30, was...
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They’ve done nothing: Haryana’s Titoli village lashes out at state’s COVID-19 response -Prabhjit Singh
-CaravanMagazine.in On 27 April, the village of Titoli in Haryana’s Rohtak district witnessed at least nine cremations in a single day. On 5 May, the entire village, which has a population of 13,000, was declared a containment zone after local media reported that there had been 28 “mysterious” deaths in two days. Most of the dead had been suffering from fever, coughs and colds. But when a fellow reporter and I...
More »The scale of Gujarat’s mortality crisis -Aashish Gupta & Murad Banaji
-The Hindu Analysis of excess deaths from the civil registration system spotlights the systematic obfuscation in official statements By all accounts, the mortality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been exceptionally large. Crematoria, burial grounds, and, in some places, even riverbeds are full. Tragically, almost everyone has lost at least one person close to them. Given this reality, few people have much faith in official COVID-19 death counts. How many COVID-19 deaths...
More »UP: Over 1600 Teachers Died of COVID-19 After Poll Duty for Panchayat Elections -Manoj Singh
-TheWire.in The Uttar Pradesh Primary Teachers’ Association has sent a list of the victims to the chief minister and put forth demands including financial assistance to family members of the teachers who have died. Gorakhpur: At least 1621 teachers and support staff have so far died from COVID-19 following poll duty during the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections, according to information provided by the Uttar Pradesh Primary Teachers’ Association on May...
More »The Hunger Pandemic -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line/ NetworkIdeas.org The disease ripping through the country is only one of the destructive forces affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of Indians. The dramatic increase in hunger is another. Like devastation wrought by the current surge in coronavirus infections, this too is the result of policy failure and official callousness. It is already causing immense suffering among affected people and will have serious repercussions on their...
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