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P C Mohanan and Arjun Kumar Large scale exodus of migrant labourers from Delhi following the announcement of the nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis stirred up the nation’s conscience. Haunting scenes of people defying the law enforcing…
लेखक: डॉ अर्जुन कुमार, प्रो. मनीष प्रियदर्शी, डॉ सिमी मेहता, प्रो. बलवंत सिंह मेहता, प्रो. आईसी अवस्थी, प्रो. सौम्यदीप चट्टोपाध्याय, प्रो. शिप्रा मैत्रा, डॉ. इंदु प्रकाश सिंह, राज कुमार, रितिका गुप्ता, अंशुला मेहता, डॉ कहकशां कमाल, बैकुंठ रॉय, डॉ डॉली पाल, पूजा कुमारी पृष्ठभूमि कोरोनोवायरस रोग (COVID-19) दुनिया भर में एक महामारी के रूप में फैल रहा है, जो दुनिया को आघात पहुंचा रहा है। विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) और रोग नियंत्रण एवं रोकथाम केंद्र (सीडीसी), के अनुसार बुजुर्ग व्यक्तियों और खासकर…
By Dr Arjun Kumar, Dr Simi Mehta, Prof Balwant Singh Mehta The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread across the world emerging as a pandemic, traumatizing the globe. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control…
Arjun Kumar, Balwant Singh Mehta, Simi Mehta In the run-up to the announcement of the nationwide lockdown on March 24th, 2020, the government failed to craft strategies to address possible fallout in several areas. One such area that went unaddressed…
India’s urban poor lacked decent access to safe water before hand washing became a matter of life and death.
The ongoing lockdown due to the pandemic crisis has compounded the challenges for the workers in the informal sector. This article provides evidence from the official data sources like the Periodic Labour Force Survey on the estimates of informal workers put of employment. It estimates the number of most vulnerable informal workers in urban areas by three ways (i) the most affected sectors; (ii) status of work and (iii) vulnerable occupations, where they are engaged in urban areas.
Manish Priyadarshi, Simi Mehta, Balwant Singh Mehta, S Jayaprakash, Dolly Pal, Bharathy, Navneet Manchanda, Ritika Gupta, Anshula Mehta, Arjun Kumar Introduction Human health is a prerequisite for the economic health of any country. Unless the population is healthy, the economy…