Coronavirus Lockdown: As Hunger Grows, the Fear of Starvation Is Real
Over 100 million people face food insecurity if the PDS is not universalised.
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Coronavirus Lockdown: The Seven and a Half Things that Modi Said and Did Not Say
On April 14, PM Modi announced that the lockdown was being extended till April 14. In his 25-minute speech, he did not talk about several things that urgently needed to be addressed by the Modi government and the urban elite.
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Why India’s Founders Championed a State-Dominated Healthcare System
Kiran Kumbhar In 1943, after decades of criticism from Indian intellectuals and leaders, colonial British officials decided to finally embrace the question of the health of around 300 million native Indians. A committee was formed to undertake a grand survey and suggest recommendations. This committee became known after its chairman as the Joseph Bhore Committee….
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As the Pandemic Accelerates, How Equipped Is India’s Healthcare System?
Soumitra Ghosh As per recent data, India now has 1,117 active COVID-19 cases and 32 deaths due to the outbreak of coronavirus in the country. Quite alarmingly, the known respiratory disease COVID-19 cases have increased exponentially in the last couple of weeks. Even in a mild scenario with an attack rate of 5-10% and a…
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How Some States are Looking After Their People Better in These Crisis Times
1. Kerala Govt Running 65% of Shelter Camps for Migrants After Lockdown: Centre to SC Courtesy: The Wire Staff The Centre has told the Supreme Court that out of the 6.3 lakh migrant workers being sheltered in government run-camps, around half – 47% – are housed in Kerala. The southern state is also running 65%…
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India’s Power Grid Survived ‘Diya Jalao’, Only Thanks to Drastic Action Behind the Scenes
K. Ashok Rao As on August 31, 2019, India had one of the largest operational synchronous grids in the world, with 360.78 GW of installed power generation capacity. The famous blackout of July 30 and 31, 2012, was the largest power outage in India. It affected more than 620 million people – half the…
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When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous
Justin Podur I’m writing this at 585,000 worldwide active cases, 26,000 deaths, and with only China and Korea seemingly under some sort of control (using a social metric tool, Worldometer). The stimulus package announced by the U.S. government is at $2 trillion, but without job protections, rent freezes, or meaningful income support for most…
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India’s Unemployment Rate May Have Shot Up to 23% After COVID-19 Lockdown: CMIE
Courtesy: The Wire Staff The national lockdown may have led to significant job losses across the country, with the overall unemployment rate hitting over 23% in the last week of March 2020, according to estimates put out by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). India currently does not have official high-frequency employment data….
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Coronavirus Pandemic: The Policies We Need to Be Ready for the Long Haul
Abhinash Borah, Sabyasachi Das, Aparajita Dasgupta, Ashwini Deshpande, Kanika Mahajan, Bharat Ramaswami, Anuradha Saha, Anisha Sharma There is a lot that is unknown about SARS-COV-2, but the world’s leading epidemiologists believe that its spread will be a long-drawn process. It will take at least 18 months for a vaccine to become available, and even…
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Concerned Citizens’ Response to FM’s COVID 19 Relief Package
Courtesy: The Caravan, 27 March 2020 Emergency measures proposed and endorsed by 635 people only half-met Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a 1.7 lakh crore package to deal with the economic fallout of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. While we welcome that the Union Government is finally addressing this issue, it would have been…
