-Press release by Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand chapter, dated 10th April, 2020 Members of the Right to Food Campaign (Jharkhand chapter) conducted a quick survey of essential facilities in rural areas during the first week of April 2020. “Observers” dispersed over 50 blocks in 19 districts of the state were asked to check the local facilities (RATion shops, dal-bhat kendras, anganwadis, among others) and report their observations over the phone....
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Bengal village starves as RATion cards mortgaged with money lenders -Pronab Mondal
-The New Indian Express The poor labourers deposit their RATion cards as guarantee for borrowing money to bear treatment expenditure or conduct weddings. KOLKATA: Almost an entire village in Purulia district is starving as RATion cards of around 50 families of tribal daily wagers are mortgaged with the local money lenders. The beneficiaries are now being deprived of the free food grains through public distribution system (PDS) as announced by Bengal chief...
More »Why the ‘GujaRAT Model of Development’ Has Seen the Highest COVID-19 Fatality RATe -Sanjeev Kumar
-TheWire.in Narendra Modi's track record in GujaRAT sheds light on his approach to public healthcare. Data updated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the evening of April 7 indicated that the fatality RATe due to COVID-19 in GujaRAT is the highest among all states and union territories of India. The total number of infected persons reported in GujaRAT was at 165, with 13 deaths. Thus the fatality RATe in GujaRAT...
More »India was Never Close to a 7-Day Doubling Growth RATe of COVID-19 Cases -Aravindhan Nagarajan
-Newsclick.in “If we compare Tablighi Jamaat congregation and if that had not taken place, our doubling RATe is 4.1 days and had those cases not happened the doubling RATe would be 7.4 days right now,” the MoHFW had claimed. On April 5, officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of the Government of India made a claim: “If we compare Tablighi Jamaat (TBJ) congregation and if that had not...
More »Punjab: Muslims Families Hide in Riverbed After Being Driven From Hoshiarpur Villages -Prabhjit Singh
-TheWire.in After three days, the families were brought some RATion by the authorities. However, no case has been filed against those who beat and abused them. Hoshiarpur: Several children, women and men on Wednesday continued to hide themselves in the Swan riverbed, without for the food for three days now, on the Punjab side of the state’s marshy borders with Himachal Pradesh. They were allegedly abused, beaten and chased away from their...
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