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Is the Agricultural Package Addressing Challenges Small Farmers Face in a Pandemic?
Gurpreet Singh
As agricultural activities are in full swing due to ongoing rabi harvest and forthcoming kharif sowing, the continuing lockdown in India is pushing small farmers further to the margins. While...
Health versus Wealth? The ‘measure’ of our responses to COVID-19
Sakshi Rai
The pandemic has laid bare our preexisting fault lines. How governments respond fiscally to tackle the COVID pandemic will determine their ability to respond and the subsequent...
This Pandemic Should Help the Govt Acknowledge the Crucial Role NGOs Play
Asadullah
“A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.” This observation made by Michael Crichton, an American author, a few decades ago could not have been...
Beyond the Pandemic: Taxing times ahead for NGOs
Malini Chakravarty
The covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown have laid bare the fissures that ail the Indian society and economy. The heart-rending reports of the devastating impact of the lockdown on the...
COVID-19: Can Reverse Migration Help Revive Rural Economy of Odisha?
Arabinda Acharya and Nilachala Acharya
Migration is a livelihood strategy adopted by millions of Indians. Much of this migration in India is happening either for work or employment or for small business, directed towards the urban areas....
Indian education can’t go online – only 8% of homes with young members have computer with net link
Protiva Kundu
As an immediate measure to stem the spread of Covid-19, most educational institutions have been shut since the end of March. It is still difficult to predict when schools, colleges and universities...
COVID-19: What fiscal steps are needed to ensure food security
Gurpreet Singh, Nilachala Acharya
The extension of the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), though necessary, will lead to a further suspension of work and no wages and means for families to...
COVID-19 Crisis Will Push Millions of Vulnerable Children Into Child Labour
Protiva Kundu
The differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society needs to be acknowledged. While some of us are practising social distancing and exploring work from home options aggressively in the hope...
Disaster Relief Funds to States for COVID-19 Is Welcome, But Centre Must Cushion Further
Nilachala Acharya and Happy Pant
Faced with a global pandemic and a devastating lockdown on economic activity, both the Centre and India’s state governments have put in place measures to respond to people’s immediate...
Shadow Pandemic: Home Is Not A Safe Place for Everyone
Sakshi Rai and Drishti Rastogi
In what UN Women calls a shadow pandemic, violence perpetrated on women and girls has seen an alarming rise, as governments in more than 90 countries impose lockdowns to check the spread of...
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