-The Indian Express The Indian Express travels across Jamui, Sheikhpura and Patna districts and tracks down nearly 600 entries shown as tested to find glaring gaps between what’s on paper — and what’s on the ground. Jamui, Patna and Sheikhpura: Over three days last month, three Primary Health Centres (PHC) in Bihar’s Jamui district tested 588 residents for Covid — all were negative. The name, age and cell number of each person...
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A year on, mind the gaps in the pandemic response -JVR Prasada Rao and Amartya Chowdhury
-The Hindu India needs to revisit its disease control strategy to ensure a more robust and humane response in similar crises January 30, 2021 marked one year since India detected its first case of COVID-19 — a student in Kerala who had returned from Wuhan, China. Analysing the country’s response to the novel Coronavirus pandemic so far reveals a mixed bag of successes and failures along with a host of unknowns looming ahead,...
More »More than 39 billion school meals missed during COVID-19 pandemic: UN report -Madhumita Paul
-Down to Earth UN agencies urged governments to prioritise school reopening More than 39 billion in-school meals were missed globally during the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic due to school closures, according to a new UNICEF report. Since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly 370 million children have not been receiving a school meal in 150 countries, said the report by UNICEF Office of Research and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)...
More »Despite some hits, the Budget has crucial misses -R Nagaraj
-The Hindu That there is no targeted employment programme to alleviate the immediate crisis is a matter of concern The Budget, at its simplest, is the government’s tentative income and expenditure statement. Like all financial statements, the devil lies in the fine print. At its broadest, the Budget is a pious statement of the government’s policy and ideological intentions. It is also the government’s statement of how it seeks to tackle the...
More »A Budget blueprint for difficult times -Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram and Praveen Chakravarty
-The Hindu Alarming inequality, failing health care and border tensions loom large and the economic situation needs full attention As the country prepares to enter a new financial year after an ominous and gloomy 2020-21, there are great expectations about green shoots and the shape of the economic recovery. The havoc wreaked by the novel Coronavirus pandemic on people’s lives and livelihoods is deep and enormous. The impact of the COVID-19 induced...
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