The recent Supreme Court of India’s judgments (please click here and here) related to ensuring food SECurity of the migrant and unorganised SECtor workers through the provision of dry ration, running of community kitchens and proper implementation of the 'One Nation One Ration Card' scheme should come as no surprise to us. A recent review of some of the robust studies, which relied on multi-state surveys (or reference surveys), having...
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Less food, more work: pandemic hit poor women the hardest, says study
-TheFederal.com Dalberg research finds women from low-income SECtions were first to lose jobs and last to regain them due to COVID disruptions While the pandemic was tough on the nation’s poor, the women from the low-income SECtion were dealt a harder blow, research has revealed. As a cash crunch hit household expenses, women’s nutrition, health and employment were the worst hit and the last to recover. A study by consulting firm Dalberg —...
More »‘PM CARES has paid only for three-fourths of ventilators ordered in April 2020’ -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu More than 16,000 machines from private manufacturers yet to be installed: Health Ministry data More than a year after the PM CARES fund announced it would buy and distribute 50,000 ventilators for ₹2,000 crore, only ₹1,532 crore has been released, according to a Health Ministry response to a Right to Information request filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd). The remaining money is awaiting clearance from the fund, said an official. A...
More »Gauging pandemic mortality with civil registration data -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Underestimation is likely as the CRS is still an imperfect system, with potential sources of error Over the last month, Indian journalists from across the country have accessed and reported on State-level all-cause mortality from the Civil Registration System (CRS), currently confidential and closed to the public. While India’s official death toll from COVID-19 has been suspect from the very beginning — for reasons that are partly institutional and partly...
More »Number of fresh COVID-19 cases down but SECond wave not over yet: Ministry
-The Hindu ‘Revenge tourism being witnessed at hill stations a dangerous trend’ India has registered a decline of 13% in average daily new COVID-19 cases in the last week said Lav Agarwal, joint SECretary, Health Ministry on Tuesday adding that “revenge tourism” which is being currently witnessed at India’s hill stations where COVID-appropriate behaviour isn’t being followed is a dangerous trend. “We have to be careful, responsible and cautious as the SECond COVID-19...
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