-Press release by Right to Food Campaign dated 25th April, 2020 The Government of India imposed a nationwide lockdown on 25th March, 2020 for three weeks, which has now been extended till 3rd May, causing extreme economic distress, especially to the poor who are unable to earn their livelihood. Please click here to access the statement issued by Right to Food Campaign insisting on 'No Lockdown beyond 3rd May, 2020'. For more information,...
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Food activists meet Jharkhand CM with relief measure demands
-Press release by Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand, dated 21 April, 2020 Representatives of the Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand met the Jharkhand Chief Minister on 21st April, 2020 to discuss the need to ramp up relief measures. The campaign had also met the food minister on 21st April, 2020 to discuss the food relief related issues and demands. Please click here to access the letter written to the Chief Minister of...
More »Use FCI's foodgrain reserve for addressing hunger & starvation, instead of ethanol production for hand sanitisers
-Press note by Right to Food Campaign dated 21st April, 2020 The Right to Food Campaign has issued a statement in the response to the Central Government's decision to convert the FCI’s food grains into ethanol to make hand sanitisers. Please click here to read it. For more information, please contact the following organisation: Right to Food Campaign Secretariat 24, Block-A, Adhchini, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi–110017 Email: righttofoodindia@gmail.com Phone: 011- 41613468 Website: www.righttofoodcampaign.in Aysha (8527359760), Gangaram Paikra (9977462084), Kavita Srivastava...
More »Coronavirus Lockdown: As Hunger Grows, the Fear of Starvation Is Real -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Over 100 million people face food insecurity if the PDS is not universalised. Meerut: Tek Narayan and Shyam Kishore Singh are migrant labourers who were employed at a construction site earning Rs 300 a day. Since the lockdown was announced, they have been stranded at the site, which is located on the outskirts of Meerut. Their homes are over 1,200 kilometres away in Latehar, one of the most backward districts of...
More »A long haul, spend wisely, but don’t skimp on the truly needy -Amartya Sen , Abhijit Banerjee & Raghuram Rajan
-The Indian Express Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit Banerjee write: As it becomes clear that the lockdown will go on for quite a while, the biggest worry right now, by far, is that a huge number of people will be pushed into dire poverty or even starvation by the combination of the loss of their livelihoods and interruptions in the standard delivery mechanisms. We in India worry a lot about the possible...
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