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Nearly one in two Indians have poor quality of life : Danone India-CII survey

-The Hindu Business Line The survey was conducted by research agency IPSOS across eight Indian Cities With the country grappling with the pandemic, nearly one out of two Indians were found to have a poor quality of life, according to a survey released by Danone India in collaboration with CII. The survey was conducted by research agency IPSOS across eight Indian Cities with a sample size of 2,762 respondents, and scored them on...

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The Vulnerabilities of the Homeless Are Due to the State's Failure To Provide Any Security -Brijesh Arya and Maggie Paul

-TheWire.in The perception has grown over the years that those without any shelter are somehow getting a free ride. Headlines across several newspapers on the afternoon of July 3 declared “homeless and beggars should work; everything cannot be provided to them by the state”. This statement was attributed to the Bombay high court bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S. Kulkarni during its hearing of a public interest litigation...

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Waste woes in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar and Rishikesh where up to 35% plastics waste flows into water bodies: iFOREST study

-GaonConnection.com A new study points out how waste segregation suffers as 70% of households in Haridwar and 90% in Rishikesh use a single bin for waste disposal; and a large chunk of plastic waste flows into the local water bodies, including the Ganges. Up to 35 per cent of the total plastic waste generated in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, leaks into its water bodies. Twenty kilometres to the northeast from Haridwar, the situation in...

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How Did Union, State Govts Fare on SC's Order Providing Safety Net for Migrant Labour? -Siraj Hussain and Jugal Mohapatra

-TheWire.in In the wake of the migrant worker crisis, the Supreme Court issued five major directions to Union and state governments on June 29, 2021.  In the wake of the sudden announcement of nationwide lockdown in March 2020, millions of people decided to go back to their villages, towns and Cities. Television channels filled with images of men, women and children, walking barefoot, some lugging suitcases with children on top were brought...

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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...

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