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Hindustan Times : How to reduce food, job insecurity in rural areas

Launch a massive programme to rehabilitate returnee migrants; allocate an additional Rs 50,000 crore for MGNREGS; extend the free ration scheme for six more months; revive and strengthen public systems of service deliver; RBI should give a directive to banks to extend a top-up loan of Rs 10,000 crore to Self-help Groups After the Covid-19 […]

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Farmers need predictable linkages with markets

After their agonizing experience in cities during the lockdown, migrant workers, in very large numbers, are back in their villages. Can the rural economy sustain them? Will they find ways of earning? The rural employment programme, MGNREGA, offers hope. But it remains to be seen whether in the current context it is the solution. Rural […]

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In COVID-19 crisis, an opportunity to reboot, revitalise rural economies with Youth Migrant Entrepreneurs

As the migrant crisis slowly subsides and India crawls its way back to normalcy, this is the right time to ask: isn’t there a way to avoid forcing these individuals out of their homes? Of the many enduring images during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the multiple visuals of migrant workers scrambling home on foot, cycle, […]

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A Lumière Torchbearer Thursday Initiative

Deepa Soman, in conversation with Ved Arya Founder and Director, Buddha Fellowship Program; SRIJAN Rebuilding Rural Livelihoods in COVID Times. A coalition of more than 50 CSOs including the most prominent ones such as PRADAN and SRIJAN supported by four donors namely Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, Arghyam, Omidyar Network India and Bill & Melinda Gates […]

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Is Jan Dhan money actually reaching people?

A rapid assessment survey highlights last-mile glitches in the distribution of government cash transfers during the lockdown. by SAAHIL KEJRIWAL Soon after the nationwide lockdown was enforced due to COVID-19, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that all account holders under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) (also known as Jan Dhan account, or JD account) would receive […]

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The Print : Amul to SpiceJet to Railways — Supply chain heroes are making sure India runs in lockdown

From Amul, which managed almost seamlessly to continue pick-up twice a day from its 36 lakh dairy farmers across 18,700 village cooperatives and supply to its eventual users in 1,000 cities and towns, to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which within a night, got 10 e-rickshaws painted in vibrant colours and used it as a vehicle to supply vegetables in the city; from India Post, which […]

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