Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Binti Singh The idea entails phasing out vehicles and creating a 15-minute city in an effort to encourage more self-sufficient urban communities with grocery shops, parks, cafes, sports facilities, health centers, schools, and even workplaces just a walk or bike-ride…
Arun Kumar The impact of delayed lockdown will depend on the likely trajectory of the disease. But, some idea can be obtained on the basis of our own experience and that of other countries, in the past year. This is…
Gurinder Kaur Prominent environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna was born on 9 January 1927 in a small village named Maroda of Tehri district in Uttarakhand and he died on 21 May 2021. Sunderlal Bahuguna started his social service work in 1949, when…
करीब 50 हफ्तों के बाद 16 मई को खत्म हुए सप्ताह में ग्रामीण बेरोजगारी दर बढ़कर 14.34 फीसदी हो गई। सेंटर फॉर मॉनिर्टंरग इंडियन इकोनॉमी (सीएमआईई) के मुताबिक, शहरी क्षेत्र में भी बेरोजगारी दर में इसी तरह से इजाफा हुआ है और शहरों में वह बढ़कर 14.71 प्रतिशत हो गई हैं। इसका सबसे बड़ा कारण लॉकडाउन को बताया जा रहा है, जो कोरोना की दूसरी लहर के बाद देशव्यापी तो नहीं, लेकिन लगभग 90 फीसदी हिस्से पर किसी न किसी रूप में लागू है।
Rajesh Tandon My childhood friend from Hyderabad called me last week to help his brother-in-law in Kanpur get admitted to a hospital for Covid treatment as his family was unable to. While I was calling some of my contacts in…
TK Arun How could the CPI(M) not give Shailaja Teacher a second term as health minister? After all, she had been the public face of Kerala’s competent Covid management, until chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan took over that role with daily…
Neoliberalism has lead to mass sufferings in the country. DEAD bodies of human beings floating in the River Ganges, is the latest in the gory stories we have been witnessing for the last few weeks. Frantic calls from friends’ right from the ones who are at high echelons to common people continued incessantly. These calls were made either for oxygen, beds in hospitals, or/and even for getting a place for cremation and burial. Not just that. Keeping the dead body overnight waiting for cremation cost more than Rs 55,000 is not an isolated case, rather innumerable such instances occurred.