-TheWeek.in The function is held to honour the corona warriors Kerala has got yet another feather in its cap for its effective resistance against COVID-19. State Health Minister K.K. Shailaja has been invited as a speaker to the UN Public Service Day, the only one to be invited from india. The function has been arranged to honour public servants who have been working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please click here...
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Centre for Equity Studies report reveals ‘major caste biases in supporting migrant workers’ during COVID-19 lockdown
-TwoCircles.net Centre for Equity Studies has released a report on the migrant crisis documenting how india’s most vulnerable class has suffered due to the unplanned national lockdown by the Central government for COVID-19. The report titled ‘Labouring Lives: Hunger, Precarity and Despair amid Lockdown’ addressed vital questions of how the country’s labouring class – stranded and jobless – coped with the lockdown living away from their homes. The research has been conducted...
More »High rates, low demand: Stressed MSMEs can’t tap into Govt relief -Sunny Verma
-The indian Express Viable companies, with good credit history, are able to raise funds, but the most needy among the MSMEs are facing a double whammy: slump in demand and lack of finance. Banks have started disbursing funds to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises under the 100% Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month but for many firms, hit hard by the pandemic lockdown, credit is...
More »Job loss certainty highest among villagers & Muslims -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph Tablighi stigma and need for government support come up during hindi-belt survey Job loss rates have been similar in rural and urban areas but the perceived “surety of losing work” is higher in the rural areas and the highest among Muslims among communities, a survey of 1,405 workers across nine Hindi-speaking states has found. “The survey revealed that the perception of uncertainty about future of work was the highest among women...
More »Lockdown further impoverishes those who were living on the edges of existence even during normal times, finds a new report
A recent survey that was conducted through telephonic interviews among 1,405 respondents across the states of Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan and Jharkhand reveals the precarious conditions of workers nearly 45 days after the announcement of COVID-19 lockdown. The report entitled Labouring Lives: Hunger, Precarity and Despair amid Lockdown tries to understand the extent (and depth) of job loss and hunger 45 days after the lockdown. Hunger and...
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