-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...
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Why Relief Packages for India's Poorest Need Targeted Intervention -Anamitra Roychowdhury and Nivedita Sarkar
-TheWire.in Social policies almost always have multiple, often unintended, consequences. This feature came out sharply, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a nationwide lockdown to arrest the spread of the novel coronavirus without announcing an immediate or near-simultaneous relief package for India’s poorest. As the fight against COVID-19 unavoidably puts the livelihoods of millions at risk, an ugly truth of Indian society has come out in the open – namely, a large...
More »Can't Dilute Lockdown, Centre Tells States, Calls Out Kerala -Neeta Sharma & Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV In a separate letter to Kerala, the home ministry has strongly objected to its move to restart restaurants, book shops and barber shops in parts of the state from today. New Delhi: The government has made it clear that states and union territories cannot "dilute" its guidelines on the nationwide lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus and said states cannot allow their own activities during this period; they can be...
More »Covid-19 inflicts a daily loss of Rs.224 crore to India’s fishery SECtor -V Sajeev Kumar
-The Hindu Business Line Kochi: The Covid-19 lockdown has put the country’s marine fishery SECtor in deep sea, inflicting a daily loss of ₹224 crore, a report prepared by the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) said. The monthly loss for the SECtor is estimated to be about ₹6,838 crore; the Kochi-based institute has put ₹6,008 crore loss to mechanised SECtor and ₹830 crore for non-mechanised SECtor. However, the loss incurred in...
More »How China dominates tech investments in India -Palak Shah
-The Hindu Business Line The Centre's decision to impose restrictions on investments coming in from neighbouring countries especially China could have an impact on the start up segment. Chinese investors have already cornered major stake in 18 out of India’s top 30 Unicorns. A recent report by foreign policy think tank ‘Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations,’ has estimated China linked investments in India’s tech start-up SECtor alone at $4 billion. These...
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