Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Tikender Singh Panwar On May 8, I got a call from one of my state cadre (Himachal Pradesh) IAS officers posted in Delhi. The call was mainly to check each other’s well-being owing to the second wave of the pandemic…
Amita Singh The recent GNCTD Amendment Act seems to be a case of using legislation to settle ideological disputes. However, in doing so, it not only violates the principles of constitutional morality and objectivity, but also defies the democratic and…
Chandrachur Singh Being a premier university, DU has a pandemic responsibility it is not fulfilling. It must rise to the occasion to do its duty as academic institutions world over are doing. Around 30 academics, a large number of non-teaching staff,…
Failure to invest in increasing vaccine production capacity has resulted in a desperate shortage of vaccines. If a third wave of the pandemic is to be averted, some 900 million people must be vaccinated twice over before winter sets in. That would call for 9 million doses a day, whereas we have 2.3 million dose availability at present.
The Indian State was never efficient. Now, in the face of a raging pandemic, it has been exposed as dysfunctional. If the current circumstances do not force a thorough reimagining of the state — its job description, capacity, and design, then nothing will.
The country is filled with woes of COVID-19, along with that civil society stands holding the beacon of hope with citizen initiatives providing information, making resources available. It seems as though every citizen in the country has taken upon themselves to make up for the ineffectiveness of the Central Government in tackling the growing crisis due to Second Wave of COVID-19 in India. With the rising death toll and infection rates India seems to have plunged into a health crisis.
The individual, social and the State forgets to heal. State response to emergency events (manmade and natural) looks at the relationship between the citizen and itself as contractual. The focus of the state is located in verification and compensation. Paramount importance is given to the non-tangible and subjective idea of national security surpassing the individual. This has become more so a reality today during the Pandemic than ever before.