-TheWire.in As India moves into the start of the second week of the 21-day lockdown period imposed nationwide by the Government of India, it helps to examine the manner in which migrant workers have been coping with the lockdown’s requirements. Migrant workers have been moving out of India’s cities to their respective towns villages, many of them on foot Due to unavailability of transport. Please click here to read more. ...
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Jayati Ghosh, development economist and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), interviewed by Rajat Mishra (Outlook India)
-Outlook India The government needs to have a large fiscal stimulus. It needs to put more money in the hands of the poor and vulnerable, Jayati Ghosh, development economist, and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University tells Outlook. The government recently announced Rs 1.7 lakh crore economic package to help the poor deal with the impact of coronavirus and a 21-day nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the disease. Experts think...
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 »Cotton farmers desperate for passes -Antony Fernando
-The New Indian Express Cotton farmers in Karaikal have requested the district administration to give them and farm workers passes to carry out work in the fields in order prevent the crops from pest attack. KARAIKAL (Puducherry): Cotton farmers in Karaikal have requested the district administration to give them and farm workers passes to carry out work in the fields in order prevent the crops from pest attack. Cotton cultivation is taken...
More »Locking down two different Indias -Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
-The Hindu While some can practise social distancing, most Indians simply cannot as they have no social security What could possibly have been the reason for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give only a four-hour notice for the lockdown? If the requirement was to keep the population indoors, strictly enforcing social distancing, how abjectly this has failed! Lakhs of migrant labourers have been jostling to get any form of transport back home;...
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