More funds could have been allocated to MGNREGA and PM Garib Kalyan Yojana to spur short-term demand Budget 2021-22, presented in the backdrop of Covid-19, has three major challenges: Containment of the pandemic; Budget 2021-22, presented in the backdrop...
Given it will be implemented in just 116 districts of six states, it is discriminatory in the sense that it leaves out states like Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. The Covid-19 lockdown left 45-60 million migrant labourers in the lurch...
The steps preferred by the government will face implementation challenges and do not address adequately the woes of migrant workers in a short- and longer-term perspective The lockdown, imposed to control the outbreak of Covid-19, has impacted the lives...