-Hindustan Times The lockdown showed how MIGrant workers, let down by the State, community and market, are the nation’s most valuable resource Atmanirbharata is India’s new economic policy. Nirbharata means reliance, and atma means the self. The Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, announced by Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, following the lockdown announced on March 24, 2020, calls for India’s economic mission to be based on self-reliance. Recently, the PM extolled the virtues of...
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India’s Manufactured Amnesia Over Its Covid-19 Lockdown Deaths -Aman, Thejesh GN, Krushna Ranaware & Kanika Sharma
-Article-14.com Citing lack of data, India’s labour, railway, agriculture ministers have claimed no one died because of a Covid-19 lockdown imposed at a four-hour notice a year ago. That is not true. At least 989—likely an underestimate— people died between March and July 2020, as per a database built by volunteers New Delhi, Bengaluru, Atlanta (US): A year after the announcement of India’s Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020, the effects of...
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-Press release by Working Peoples Charter (WPC) Network dated 23rd March, 2021 A statement on the condition of India’s MIGrant workforce one year after the COVID-19 lockdowns 24 March marks the anniversary of India’s harsh nationwide COVID-19 lockdown when we witnessed an unparalleled impact on the country’s poor, particularly internal MIGrants who comprise a 140 million-strong workforce. In 2020, India saw the largest urban-rural exodus in its history, with millions of workers...
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-The Hindu A year after the lockdown, jobs are not only harder to find, they pay less New Delhi/ Noida: Construction sites, industrial clusters, markets and homes in the National Capital Region (NCR) are abuzz with activity, but for the MIGrant workers who make a living in these spaces, life is far from normal a year after the country was locked down to curb the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020. Almost a...
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-OpenTheMagazine.com From working to make Kutch villages self-sufficient to investing in traditional practices in the Himalayas to digging wells in Bengaluru, India’s frontline fighters are making water scarcity a thing of the past GAZALA PAUL, 56 AHMEDABAD: MAKING VILLAGES SELF-SUFFICIENT “If I can save water at the individual level by using water sparingly and not allowing others to waste, that is the beginning,” says Gazala Paul. But she has been doing much more...
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