-The Indian Express Building infrastructure and services, including pre-primary education, maternity, disability and sickness benefits, and long-term care, will help ensure that India’s post-COVID recovery is equitable and gender-inclusive. The Cambridge Dictionary defines “infrastructure” as “the basic systems and services that are needed in order to support an economy.” Traditionally, infrastructure has been understood and interpreted to mean physical, immovable assets, primarily in the energy, transport, telecommunications and water sectors. Over the last...
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Wait for final rites get longer as crematoriums across Gujarat overburdened - Aditi Raja, Kamal Saiyed, Gopal B Kateshiya and Ritu Sharma
-The Indian Express For the relatives of deceased patients, queues begin from the wait at hospitals for their dear one's body, for hearse vans to take them to the resting place, to finding a furnace free at a crematorium -- the time for each disposal/cremation has increased because of the Covid-19 protocol. Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara: Donning a PPE suit Chirag Patel waited at the Vadaj crematorium in Ahmedabad for his turn...
More »Delhi Crematoriums, Graveyards Struggle To Keep Up As Covid Deaths Rise
-NDTV.com At Delhi's biggest graveyard near ITO, a JCB excavator could be seen being used to constantly dig up more graves but it is also fast running out of space. New Delhi: At Delhi's biggest crematorium, Nigambodh Ghat, the number of cremations have gone up from 15 per day to over 30 as COVID-19-related deaths in the national capital continue to rise. Delhi recorded 104 deaths due to coronavirus on Wednesday, the highest...
More »Bhopal crematoriums flooded with bodies: 187 cremated following Covid norms while records show only 5 deaths -Ravish Pal Singh
-IndiaToday.in At the two crematoriums in Bhopal, 187 bodies were cremated following Covid protocols in four days while the official death toll remained at five. Bhopal: The number of deceased Covid-19 patients who are being cremated or buried in Bhopal city is far higher than what the official records have been stating over the past days. The cremation grounds in Bhopal that would see about 5-10 bodies being brought earlier are now seeing...
More »Covid-19 Surge: Will India Witness A Second Exodus Of Migrant Labourers? -Lola Nayar
-Outlook India If talks of lockdown turn into reality and if it gets implemented for a month or more, then a reverse migration of daily wage labourers can be expected from impacted cities, say experts Mixed signals from some of the states like Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka among others is giving rise to concern that a repeat of last year’s exodus of migrant labourers during the extended lockdown would once again impact operations...
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