-Livemint.com * 100-200 trucks are directly reaching retail vegetable market on the grounds and some 100 trucks are coming to APMC * PRIces of foodgrains and pulses are currently around 40% higher than normal days Mumbai: Every day close to 600 truckloads of vegetables, foodgrains and fruits converge from Gujarat, Delhi, Rajasthan and various parts of Maharashtra to the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) centre at Vashi in New Mumbai, to feed the...
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The Centre Is Back to Using the Bogey of 'Fake News' to Try and Suppress Press Freedom -Devika Tulsiani and Soutik Banerjee
-TheWire.in There are no credible reports suggesting that migrant workers decided to walk home based on fake news. In a recent public interest litigation (Alakh Alok Srivastava vs Union of India), the Centre sought a direction from the Supreme Court that “no electronic / PRInt media / web portal or social media shall PRInt / publish or telecast anything without first ascertaining the true factual position from the separate mechanism provided by...
More »Corona has pushed Bharat to the brink -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com * A prolonged lockdown will hurt farmers about to harvest the winter crop and the landless living on daily wages * Continued disruption in the food supply chain will eventually hit consumers if PRIces vary widely across regions. This uncertainty has also hit 70 mn households in rural India who own small dairies NEW DELHI: Baburao Sanap has no clue how to pull himself out of a big mess —he’s saddled with...
More »Corona impact: Free lunch scheme for school children goes off the menu -Neetu Chandra Sharma
-Livemint.com * One fallout of the containment measures is that children have to do without the guaranteed school meal * Anganwadi workers have been directed to anganwadi centres only to receive take-home ration NEW DELHI: Unaware of the covid-19 pandemic, four-year-old Jamuni, a malnourished girl in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, is worried that her PRImary school has been closed for the last 20 days. Her worry revolves around missing the mid-day meals...
More »These migrants did not walk back home. They stayed and are now running out of food -Vijayta Lalwani & Ipsita Chakravarty
-Scroll.in Falling through the cracks of the public distribution system, they fear stepping out, even for food. As PRIme Minister Narendra Modi announced a national lockdown on March 24 and asked Indians to stay home in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus, it triggered an exodus of migrant workers from the cities. With all work halted and public transport shut, they set off on desperate journeys, aiming to walk back...
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