Tag: GOVERNMENT
Shifting the Blame Won’t Suffice, Lets Contemplate on the Coronavirus Pandemic
With coronavirus claiming lakhs of innocent lives and issues around migration, malnutrition and hunger challenging the nation, should we blame the year or our own policy lapses?
COVID-19 Has Exposed India’s Rich-Poor Divide Unlike Before and Brought Healthcare to the Centre-Stage
The Coronavirus pandemic has underlined India’s fragile public healthcare system and decades of meagre expenditure on strengthening possibilities for affordability and quality in healthcare.
Centre Vs Opposition: Who is Really Paying for the Train Fares of Migrant Workers?
The Centre’s decision to make migrant workers pay for train tickets invited vehement criticism from the Opposition, later the onus was shifted on the railways and the respective states. But what really is the truth?
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Need for Reinstating the Role of the State in...
Amidst the pandemic, there is urgent need for the State to reinstate its role in the economy and increase spending in universal public health and welfare measures.
Should Migrants be Compelled to Pay Train Fares: Centre and Opposition Engage in Full...
The controversy regarding collection of fares from migrant workers to take them to their respective states via specialised trains has turned into a full-fledged war between the Centre and the Opposition.
‘Modi Mahals’ in Times of Corona: Opposition Against Construction of New Parliament Building
The Opposition has condemned the Centre’s plans for a new Parliament building complex and suggested that it’s a mismanagement of resources while the country faces the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Indifferent State, Hypocritical Politics and the Plight of Migrant Workers
Here is a piece that underlines state apathy towards the migrant class and reveals the fractured and unequal society that we find ourselves in.
India’s initial coronavirus response carried echoes of the colonial era
Leading economists are pointing out that the Indian government’s relief package to the poor is thoroughly inadequate, with many falling through the cracks.
Mild Symptoms of COVID 19:Health Ministry Makes it Possible to Practice Home Isolation
A clinically assigned mild COVID 19 patient can now practice home isolation if the adequate facilities are available at his/her residence.
Surplus Rice Stocks to be Used for Making Sanitisers as Starvation is Reported from...
While starvation deaths are reported and people are facing acute hunger amid the lockdown, how justified is it to use surplus stocks of rice for making ethanol for the production of hand-sanitisers?
