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An estimated 12 crore of India’s 46.5 crore workforce are migrant workers. Lakhs transfer Rs 1,000 to 20.37 lakh construction wor of them are now on the move on foot to reach their homes. They carry the risk of labour department. Most people who have been s ‘Don’t want anyone to remain hungry’:Sitharaman spreading COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, to rural India, in of kilometres to their homes are relying on good sa Ramlalla addition tosupports the risk of contracting the disease themselves. They also run the risk government has not established any community k announces Covid-19 relief package | Sonia Gandhi of going hungry. While the Centre has not announced any substantial financial workers who are on the move or are stranded. aid for daily wage the Uttar Pradesh shifted, government has said that it will Oppn lockdown, demands direct cash transfer of Rs 7,500 toearners, poor
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says UP CM India is notsocial China flouted India has more than 600,000 villages, and its central and state governments have little or no knowledge distancing of what is happening in most of them
he government’s response to the threat has so far been pathetic, but this is not because it does not care. So far, all of it has been predicated on the unspoken assumption that the pandemic can be brought under control in three weeks. But this is wishful thinking. China is the only country that has succeeded in stopping the spread of the virus through a lockdown so far. But India is not China.
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India has more than 600,000 villages, and its central and state governments have little or no knowledge of what is happening in most of them. By contrast, the Chinese Communist Party is present, and has a committee, in every single village of the country. It is able to have these because it has 70 million members. This is four times the combined strength of the central and state government bureaucracies in India, and these 70 million function in a country where accountability to higher authority is close to complete. China imposed a total lockdown only in Hubei province, where COVID-19 started. And it had to keep it going for three months – not three weeks – to bring the virus under control. In India, once the virus reaches the villages only the extreme heat of summer will be able to check its further spread and that effect, while likely, cannot be taken for granted. The first thing that the Central and all state governments
Carrying wife who has a factured in her lag, casual worker Ramesh travelling to his home town which away 262 km.
Coronavirus update: A long walk home on empty stomachs for masked migrants
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‘Hunger Can Kill Us
Before the Virus’ Facing starvation and because of unavailability of work, many daily wage labourers have set out on foot to walk to their homes, hundreds of kilometres away
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