-ThePrint.in This is the moment to thank farmers. You don’t need thali or taali for that, you just need to ensure they get a fair price. Then we can kickstart India’s economy. As many States in north India begin their food grain procurement operations and more and more news begin to filter in from rural India, we can see one of the biggest blunders of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown strategy: it might...
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The key strategy is fiscal empowerment of States -M Govinda Rao
-The Hindu The Centre must recognise that winning the war on COVID-19 is linked to the States being armed with enough resources The scale of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has never been seen before. Even as we are in the midst of the second phase of the national lockdown, there is no clarity on the time it will take to come out of the crisis, the extent of damage it...
More »ICMR directly procured faulty Covid-19 testing kits from Chinese vendors -Elizabeth Roche
-Livemint.com ICMR advises States not to use the testing kits for the next two days, saying it will issue an advisory after medical teams carry out field validation of the kits NEW DELHI: Test kits for the detection and surveillance of covid-19 cases in India that have apparently been found faulty had been procured by the Indian Council of Medical Research from China from Chinese vendors approved by Chinese authorities, a senior...
More »How Pastoralists across India are Affected by the COVID-19 Lockdown & Solutions to Sustain Livelihoods
-Centre for Pastoralism, dated 20th April, 2020 There are an estimated 30-35 million pastoralists distributed across several States in the country. These communities manage a wide range of livestock, through long-distance migrations that often span multiple States. India’s wool, leather, meat and milk economies are directly or indirectly linked to these communities. This report attempts to capture core problems confronting these communities with the COVID lockdown and identifies solutions to help...
More »Can't Dilute Lockdown, Centre Tells States, Calls Out Kerala -Neeta Sharma & Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV In a separate letter to Kerala, the home ministry has strongly objected to its move to restart restaurants, book shops and barber shops in parts of the state from today. New Delhi: The government has made it clear that States and union territories cannot "dilute" its guidelines on the nationwide lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus and said States cannot allow their own activities during this period; they can be...
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