-TheWire.in 'Disaster management' has become the new vehicle for suspending the fundamental rights of the people and there is a danger that this may become the new normal even after the coronavirus THReat has subsided. When the debate last week should have been over how quickly the lockdown can be lifted, several chief ministers, including KCR of Telangana has – which has had a modest number of positive cases and deaths –...
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Foodgrain stocks bountiful, yet the poor are going hungry -Furquan Ameen
-The Telegraph Provide emergency ration cards, universalise PDS in rural areas and urban slums, says Dreze India’s foodgrain stocks have never been so bountiful, yet the government is struggling to ensure that no one remains hungry in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic that has sparked an unprecedented emergency involving jobless migrant workers, thousands of whom are stranded away from their homes. Stocks with Food Corporation of India was estimated to be around...
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-Scroll.in The Central government is using outdated population figures to determine grain allocations to states under the food security law. Millions of Indians live on the verge of hunger even in normal times. Now, with the coronavirus epidemic sweeping the world and India declaring a five week-long economic lockdown to contain it, hunger THReatens an even larger population which has no income to buy food. As part of its economic central government has...
More »India needs a strong fiscal stimulus -Pulapre Balakrishnan
-Hindustan Times Plan for a Rs 20 lakh crore-stimulus. It is needed for both immediate relief and economic revival India has seen among the most stringent prevention responses to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) so far. With a complete lockdown for THRee weeks already, and a further 19 days added on Tuesday, it has hit the maximum in an index of stringency designed by the United Kingdom’s Overseas Development Institute. But its economic...
More »Hell on the Yamuna as hundreds starved for days after Delhi shelters went up in flames -Supriya Sharma & Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Migrant workers allege the administration stopped serving them food after shelters were set ablaze on Saturday. The banks of the Yamuna in Delhi have swollen up with men who cannot go home. On Tuesday afternoon, some lay curled over nothing more than a gamcha or cloth towel. A few guarded their bags and belongings by using them as pillows. Others had nothing on them apart from their clothes. Hundreds of these daily-wage...
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