Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
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…
Simi Mehta, Balwant Singh Mehta, Arjun Kumar In the run-up to the announcement of nationwide lockdown starting 00:00 hours of 25 March 2020, there were several areas where the government failed to craft a strategy to address the possible fallouts.…
Simi Mehta, Balwant Mehta and Arjun Kumar If the sight and plight of the parent walking with his ten-month old infant on his shoulders for over 100 kilometers does not shake you from the comfort of your lockdown, one can…