-Press note by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 24 March, 2020 A group of concerned citizens have appealed the Central and state governments to deliver emergency relief to informal labour force, agricultural workers, small and marginal farmers, MGNREGA workers, old-age pensioners, widows, the differently-abled, slum dwellers, the homeless and other such vulnerable communities through programmes like National Food SECurity Act (NFSA), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Pensions, Ujjwala scheme,...
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Unorganised workers have been hit hard, need direct payments, India Inc tells PM Modi -P Vaidyanathan Iyer
-The Indian Express Over the last few weeks, many daily wage labourers and part of the unorganised or informal SECtor could not find work because of the lockdown. AT LEAST six top corporate leaders are said to have recommended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the government should make payments to unorganised SECtor workers since they bear the brunt of the severe lockdown measures to arrest the spread of Covid-19 disease. N Chandrasekaran,...
More »Handwashing in water-stressed countries major challenge in fight against Covid-19 -Ambika Vishwanath and Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman
-TheThirdPole.net We are all being told that the best way to keep coronavirus at bay is washing hands with soap and water several times a day; authorities need to quickly come up with solutions for the large number of Indians who do not have access to enough clean water “Bunty, tera saboon slow hai kya?” (“Bunty, is your soap slow?”), is the catch phrase of a popular TV ad. It shows a...
More »How to handle a pandemic -KK Shailaja
-The Hindu The Kerala government has been successful in putting the public health SECtor back on the rails Every year after the Union Budget, newspapers carry articles critiquing the abysmal allocation for the health SECtor. As the COVID-19 threat looms, doctors, healthcare professionals and state institutions have been regularly issuing guidelines on the precautions to be taken. However, the ubiquitous fault lines of India’s public healthcare infrastructure are being laid bare as...
More »No economic task force for COVID-19 yet -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Will be set up by PMO or Cabinet SECretariat, says Finance Ministry. Four days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a task force would be set up to deal with the economic impact of coronavirus (COVID-19), it has yet to be constituted. Although Mr. Modi said the task force was to be headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the Ministry says it is not responsible for constituting the body. In...
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