-The Indian Express Ever since the lockdown was enforced on March 25, there has been ever-increasing uncertainty about the welfare, if not the basic survival, of the vulnerable sections of the society, many of whom depend on daily wages for their sustenance. India witnessed a tragic irony last week when 16 migrants, part of a group of 20 headed towards their villages in Madhya Pradesh and who were hoping to board a...
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Food before cash: Because PMJDY cash transfers will exclude many of India’s poorest -Rohini Pande , Simone Schaner & Charity Troyer Moore
-The Indian Express Cash is easy to carry and widely accepted. But, our analysis of nationally representative survey data, described below, suggests that these transfers will exclude many of India’s poorest and, for others, come too late. The vast majority of India’s poor rely on daily wage labour for sustenance. With the current lockdown and its likely extension, millions of daily labourers and their families can no longer earn the money they...
More »Delhi’s Food Scheme for the Poor is Better on Paper than on the Ground -Suchitra
-TheWire.in As gaping holes emerge in the Delhi Corona Sahayata Yojana, daily wage earners remain unpaid, hungry and helpless. New Delhi: A month ago, on April 7, Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde asked public interest lawyer Prashant Bhushan: “If they are being provided meals, then why do they need money for meals?” Bhushan had represented a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed jointly by civil rights activists Harsh Mander and Anjali Bharadwaj to...
More »Centre Preps "Image Correction" Exercise To Blunt Criticism Over Migrants -Sanket Upadhyay
-NDTV The booklet containing what the centre has done for people, especially migrants, will be widely circulated, the source said, adding the massive publicity campaign will be the main thrust of the entire exercise. New Delhi: The centre will launch an "image correction" exercise to counter what is seen as not doing enough to help stranded and hungry Migrant Workers amid the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, sources have said. The centre...
More »Locked down in distress -Sakina Dhorajiwala and Rajendran Narayanan
-The Indian Express Centre’s policy of monopolising decisions, socialising economic losses in the wake of Covid-19 has left Migrant Workers in the lurch The 40-day lockdown was further extended at a time of sporadic expressions of resistance and anger by Migrant Workers in a few cities. Extreme precarity doesn’t have a singular expression. While some are responding with anger, others are responding with resignation. The severe distress among Migrant Workers in India...
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