-The Hindu Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa will make the announcement soon, says Co-operation Minister S.T. Somashekar Bengaluru: Co-operation Minister S.T. Somashekar on July 14 said the government would soon announce a waiver of ₹79.47 crore in farm loans borrowed by 10,187 farmers in Karnataka who succumbed to COVID-19. Loans borrowed from apex, district credit cooperative banks and primary agricultural cooperative societies (PACS) would be waived. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa would formally announce the...
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‘Excess deaths’ in Haryana seven times official COVID-19 toll -Srinivasan Ramani
-The Hindu The undercount factor was moderate compared with States such as Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh The number of “excess deaths” registered by the Civil Registration System (CRS) in Haryana ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit (from April 2020 to May 2021) was 60,397, which is 7.3 times the official reported figure of 8,303 COVID-19 deaths for the same period. This high number was largely due to the deaths registered in April...
More »School closure: One in three countries not implementing programmes to mitigate learning loss, says report
-PTI/ The New Indian Express At the same time, only one-third of countries are taking steps to measure learning losses in primary and lower second levels, mostly among high-income countries, the survey report stated. NEW DELHI: One in three countries where schools were or are still closed due to the Covid Pandemic have not yet implemented remedial programmes to mitigate learning loss, according to a survey. The "Survey on National Education Responses to...
More »‘One in three couldn’t afford food year-round in 2020’ -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Pandemic-induced poverty and rise in food prices keep healthy diet out of reach of three billion people Good food or just food? “Our choice is always the latter. We need to survive.” Sukru Ojha, the 56-year-old resident of Koraput, Odisha told Down To Earth in April in reply to a query on whether the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic-induced income loss impacted his food intake. Koraput is one of...
More »Severely malnourished under-5 children consumed by hunger in the pandemic - Mohit Shukla
-GaonConnection.com Almost 43% of under the age of six kids in the country, suffering from severe acute malnutrition, are in Uttar Pradesh. Covid Pandemic, loss of livelihoods, overburdened healthcare system and disrupted anganwadi services have made matters worse in the state. A Gaon Connection report. Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh: Kanti Devi gave birth to her second son Anmol three months ago. Her older son Adit is one-and-a-half years old. Her eyes sick with...
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