-ThePrint.in Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management says the number of people they feed has increased since it first began distributing food after the Nationwide lockdown. New Delhi: The Bangla Sahib Gurdwara in the heart of Delhi has seldom let any hungry visitor go without food. With the pandemic now leaving thousands scrambling for their daily meals, the gurdwara’s community kitchen has taken the lead to feed over 75,000 people every day. The kitchen uses...
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India must rescue farmers from Covid-19 shock -Soumya Sarkar
-TheThirdPole.net India’s pandemic-forced lockdown has plunged agriculture into a crisis that needs immediate cash transfers to bail out smallholder farmers preparing for the summer cropping season India’s complete lockdown to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has upended the agrarian economy of the South Asian nation. It could have a serious impact on farm production in the main summer cropping season, work for which starts in May. Farmers in India are no...
More »Why did the Centre put migrant workers through five weeks of anguish before letting them go home? -Ipsita Chakravarty
-Scroll.in Neither testing nor hospital capacities in rural districts seems to have shown much improvement since lockdown was imposed. Five weeks after a Nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus was announced to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Centre will allow migrant workers to return home. Five weeks during which hundreds of thousands of workers set out on foot to cover the hundreds of kilometres that lay between...
More »Chhattisgarh purchased highest value of minor forest produce in country amid lockdown -Ritesh Mishra
-Hindustan Times The government officials quoted the data, released by the Central government-run Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED), to highlight that Chhattisgarh’s purchase has been the highest in the country to alleviate the plight of the state’s poor forest dwellers and tribal villagers, who are dependent on the MFP for their livelihood. Raipur: Chhattisgarh government has announced that it has topped the country in the purchase of minor forest...
More »Jharkhand to Modify MGNREGA Rules to Provide Work to Returning Migrants
-TheWire.in/ PTI The Centre on Wednesday relaxed lockdown guidelines enabling states to bring back people stranded at different places across the country. Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Thursday said it would bring in new guidelines to widen the scope of work under the MGNREGA to provide jobs to migrant workers returning homes, and sent buses to West Bengal for bringing back people of the state stranded there due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown. Chief...
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