-The Hindu Business Line The government is seen doing very little to mitigate the woes of the thousands of migrant workers who have been pushed to the brink of starvation by the lockdown * Post the Covid-19 lockdown, unorganised sector migrant labourers have been unable to afford even two square meals a day * 78 per cent of workers surveyed said they had less than ₹300 * Economic relief packages such as PMGKY have...
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The key strategy is fiscal empowerment of States -M Govinda Rao
-The Hindu The Centre must recognise that winning the war on COVID-19 is linked to the States being armed with enough resources The scale of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has never been seen before. Even as we are in the midst of the second phase of the national lockdown, there is no clarity on the time it will take to come out of the crisis, the extent of damage it...
More »Food activists meet Jharkhand CM with relief measure demands
-Press release by Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand, dated 21 April, 2020 Representatives of the Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand met the Jharkhand Chief Minister on 21st April, 2020 to discuss the need to ramp up relief measures. The campaign had also met the food minister on 21st April, 2020 to discuss the food relief related issues and demands. Please click here to access the letter written to the Chief Minister of...
More »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 »Coronavirus: PM-CARES donations cut from government staff salaries -Priscilla Jebaraj, Vijaita Singh & Manojit Saha
-The Hindu Circulars were sent to all departments. Employees from a number of government departments and agencies have donated a day’s salary toward the PM-CARES fund. While the donations, meant for COVID-19 relief, were said to be “voluntary”, government circulars show that the deductions were made directly from salaries. Those unwilling to donate were asked to submit their refusal in writing. Please click here to read more. ...
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