Tag: POOR

The world has a COVID-19 vaccine access and distribution crisis. While almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries have vaccinated less than than 1% of their populations.

Inadequate sanitation, lack of awareness and poor hygiene practices make urban slums vulnerable to infection amid COVID-19, can a sustained public health and sanitation mechanism empower such communities?

As the nation confronts its 17th Lok Sabha elections, here is a glance through all the pro-poor slogans that have been uttered by political leaders to entice the poor and the marginal. But transcending this empty rhetoric has policy penetrated down to the last man?

Nyuntam Aay Yojana/While both the ruling and the Opposition parties are engaged in campaigning and winning over potential voters ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress President Rahul Gandhi has come up with a new scheme to tackle poverty in the nation through minimum income guarantee under his proposed Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme.

Recently we have witnessed an intense debate on the proposal for introducing ten per cent reservation in educational institutions and government jobs for the poor belonging to the forward castes across religious faiths.

THE BRIEFING The National Rural Drinking Water Programme has failed.  And it is indeed a matter of great disillusionment for a nation whose population suffers every single day to have access to clean and non-polluted water.

Segregated ‘ghettos’ alienate and separate people while cosmopolitan spaces build the social fabric. A walk through the Valmiki Colony in the heart of Delhi reminds us of the manner in which the interplay of class, caste and modernity influence the realm of education. Manish Singh