-Scroll.in The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed how rooted structural imbalances are between rural and urban, male and female, rich and poor, even in the digital world. As an immediate measure to stem the spread of Covid-19, most educational institutions have been shut since the end of March. It is still difficult to predict when schools, colleges and universities will reopen. There are few options other than to shift to digital platforms from...
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A grain stockist with a role still relevant -Sudha Narayanan
-The Hindu In the middle of the pandemic, the FCI holds the key to warding off a looming crisis of hunger and starvation For several years now, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has drawn attention for all the wrong reasons. Set up under the Food Corporations Act 1964, in its first decade, the FCI was at the forefront of India’s quest of self-sufficiency in rice and wheat following the Green Revolution,...
More »COVID-19: Can we flatten the un-sustainability curve? -Venkatesh Dutta
-Down to Earth The Earth needs to resurrect and heal. It is the right time to define collective growth and prosperity, not in terms of rising income but rising ecological wellbeing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Ebola have shaken the global economy and society in the last two decades. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disease is following suit. The nature has hit a reset button. Economies are in a...
More »Put some money in the hands of people...so that they have money when lockdown opens, says Abhijit Banerjee -Sandeep Phukan
-The Hindu Right now, linking Aadhar with Public Distribution System would have been very good, the Nobel laureate tells former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in a conversation The Congress on Tuesday released an edited video of a conversation between Nobel laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee and former party chief Rahul Gandhi on the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the excerpts from the conversation. Rahul Gandhi: Just out of curiosity, you got...
More »Misconceptions about COVID-19 result in poultry value chain erosion -Deepak Tushir and Ajit Kanitkar
-VillageSquare.in The poultry value chain suffered a macro tragedy due to rumors linking the pandemic and chicken consumption. Compensation to women poultry farmers, infusion of capital and logistics permission can restore the sector Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh): In the earlier write-up, we had presented how COVID-19 has impacted the life and livelihood of women poultry farmer producers losing an assured source of income of about Rs 50,000 a year. The macro consequences are...
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