-The Telegraph Morality forbids what the law doesn’t: For now, employers should follow this adage and pay due wages It’s one of the COVID-19 lockdown’s most tragic side-effects: employers forced to suspend business operations, leaving them without the cashflow to pay their employees. And often, the workers not getting paid are those earning minimum wages that have no cash reserves to fall back on. These people who are getting hit the hardest...
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Centre’s beneficiary count for COVID-19 relief is faulty -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu It fails to note there are likely overlaps in groups of recipients The Centre has wrongly claimed that 39.28 crore poor people have received financial assistance of ₹34,800 under its Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan package so far. A fact check shows that the correct figure is 33.71 crore beneficiaries. Please click here to read more. ...
More »COVID-19 lockdown dents the economy of India’s forest dwellers -Hridayesh Joshi
-Mongabay.com * The nationwide lockdown has affected the economy of India’s tribal population, which depends highly on the sale of minor forest products. * However, state governments are hoping things will become normal soon as the lockdown norms get relaxed in the coming days. Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel even praised the tribal population in his state for maintaining social distancing properly. * Experts and organisations working with tribal communities demand removal or...
More »Not at the cost of food security -Siraj Hussain & Ajit Ranade
-The Indian Express Diverting rice to produce ethanol during the pandemic is unethical. Surplus grains should be used to feed those in distress. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and a country-wide lockdown came an announcement that was difficult to believe. The press release said the National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC) chaired by the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas has decided to use “surplus” rice available with the Food...
More »Boost wages to stimulate India’s growth -Jayan Jose Thomas
-The Hindu The economic crisis can be overcome only by raising the consumption of and investment for the poor Impoverishment among English workers during the early years of the Industrial Revolution had prompted Leicester framework knitters to frame this resolution in 1817: “… if liberal Wages were given to the Mechanics in general throughout the Country, the Home Consumption of our Manufactures would be immediately more than doubled, and consequently every hand...
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