-The Hindu Nationwide virus tally crosses 40,000. The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India crossed 40,000 on Sunday, making it one among 16 countries that have crossed that figure. With 83 more deaths since Saturday, a single-day high, the death toll nationwide has gone up to 1,306. India currently has 28,070 active cases and 10,886 patients have recovered, according to the latest numbers available on the Health Ministry website. Maharashtra, Gujarat...
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Cash-strapped migrants forced to pay for passage back home -Ajeet Mahale
-The Hindu Workers clueless on how to obtain and pay for mandatory medical certificate; Railways allowing only 54 passengers per coach Mumbai: “Yahan pe ghut ghut ke ji nahi sakte (It’s becoming unbearable to live here like this),” said Mohammad Hanif, a construction worker from Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh. Along with 100 others from the same district living in Saki Naka, Mr. Hanif wants to leave as soon as possible. The announcement of...
More »Why is India spending money showering petals on hospitals but making workers pay for train tickets? -Shoaib Daniyal
-Scroll.in Gestures should not come at the cost of real action. When Narendra Modi announced India’s harsh lockdown starting from March 25 to combat the spread the coronavirus, migrant workers were the worst affected group. Stranded in Cities without wages or access to food, hundreds of thousands of people started walking, cycling and smuggling themselves in container trucks and cement mixers to try to get home – a journey that was sometimes...
More »It’s about food, nutrition and livelihood security -MS Swaminathan & Nitya Rao
-The Hindu Farmers’ cooperation, technological upgrading and favourable public policies can help India deal with the pandemic The current national lockdown to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the problems of food, nutrition and livelihood security confronting a large number of rural people, in particular, migrants to Cities. While some measures have been announced, such as provision of additional rice or wheat, some pulses and oil free of cost, as well as...
More »Study of 1,129 migrants who returned to one Rajasthan area shows that none had coronavirus infection -Pavitra Mohan, Arpita Amin & Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan
-Scroll.in This provides a strong indication that the risk of migrants spreading the infection is low, suggest the study’s authors. When the government on March 24 announced a complete lockdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, millions of migrant workers were stranded in India’s towns and Cities. Tens of thousands of others started walking or cycling hundreds of kilometres to their villages. Though the lockdown on Friday was...
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