-IndiaSpend.com Of India's 83 districts with a Covid-19 test positivity ratio higher than 10% by the week ending June 30, 54% were in the mountainous Himalayan region. Experts ascribe this to infections reaching hilly areas later than the plains, and to low and late testing Mumbai: India's Himalayan region is reporting high levels of Covid-19 positivity, even as the SECond wave recedes in many parts of India, an IndiaSpend analysis of Ministry...
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Can some States serve as a bellwether for the third wave? -R Prasad
-The Hindu Both in the first wave and SECond wave of COVID-19, increase in daily cases was first reported in Maharashtra, then Kerala and Delhi Both in the first and SECond wave, an increase in daily reported cases was first reported in Maharashtra, followed by Kerala and Delhi. These could be due to several reasons including greater integrity in testing and reporting data. Can a sharp and sustained increase in daily cases...
More »Here's What We Know About COVID's Impact on India's Workers – and What We Can Do About it -Rosa Abraham and Amit Basole
-TheWire.in The pandemic disproportionately impacted women and young workers. A school bus driver is struggling to make ends meet driving a tempo for hire, purchased with an informal loan; a five-star chef is volunteering for an NGO preparing cooked meals for distribution in the slums of Bangalore; and an MCA degree-holder is working as a door-to-door water purifier technician. These and many more such anecdotes give us a glimpse into the disruption...
More »More boys dropped out of school than girls at SECondary level in India in 2019-20: UDISE+ Report
-PTI/ The Hindu According to the report, nearly 30% students in the country do not transit from the SECondary to the senior SECondary level. More boys dropped out of school at the SECondary level as well as in primary classes (1 to 5), while the number of girls dropping out of school in the upper primary classes (6-8) was higher than that of the boys in 2019-20, according to a Unified District...
More »NAPM welcomes the SC judgment on rations for all migrants & time-bound registration of unorganized SECtor workers
-Press release by National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) dated 2nd July, 2021 The sudden and unplanned lockdown imposed by the union government in March 2020 in the wake of pandemic had caused immense hardship to the informal SECtor workers. After much criticism and concern on its inaction, Supreme Court on 26.05.2020 took suo moto cognizance of “problems and miseries of the migrant labourers”. Later, several persons associated with people’s organisations...
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