-Hindustan Times Less than 57% of the people who sought work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have received jobs under the programme. At a time when millions of migrant workers who have returned home to the hinterland are looking towards it for a livelihood, the government’s flagship rural jobs programme has got off to a slow start in the new financial year, government data show, amid the...
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We Need to Rethink our Economics to Avoid Future Epidemics -Debanjana Dey & Taposik Banerjee
-Vikalp.ind.in During the late 1950s when villages near the Kyasanur Forest in Karnataka started to become crowded, farmers began to clear the forest to find new land for agriculture as well as for construction of houses and roads. This brought them to close contact with the primates in the forest. When Kyasanur Forest DISEase (KFD) outbreak took place among monkeys, the virus did not take much time to jump species and...
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-The Telegraph Centre says good management, researchers not so sure India’s death rate among coronavirus DISEase patients is among the lowest in the world, the health ministry said on Tuesday, attributing it to early detection and clinical management, but health researchers cautioned that reasons remain unclear. The health ministry, releasing comparative figures, said the country’s case fatality rate — the number of deaths divided by the number of cases — is 2.8 per...
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-Livemint.com * India must use this moment to redirect government energies towards truly improving public health for all * India has the legal and industrial infrastructure to produce high-quality and affordable medicines, but we have hobbled it. The Indian patent system needs urgent attention BENGALURU: As we enter the tenth week of lockdown, it is hard to get past debates on the effectiveness of India’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The relatively low...
More »COVID-19: 60% farmers suffered yield loss on their harvest, shows survey -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth Survey aimed to evaluate the impact of the nationwide lockdown against the novel coronavirus DISEase (COVID-19) on agricultural production and livelihood More than half the farmers who harvested their crops suffered a lower yield during the nationwide lockdown, compared to the last season of sowing the same crop, revealed a survey of 1,500 farmers in 200 districts across 12 states. The lockdown — to curb the spread of the novel...
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