The lockdown has increased vulnerabilities of people with disabilities
Officially, 2.2 per cent people in India have disabilities. But the sector experts claim this figure is as high as 7-8 per cent of the total population. In times of social distancing and isolation, how are these 100 million people managing their lives?
Nidhi Jamwal
Braving the odds, front-line health workers are home delivering dry ration to millions of anganwadi kids and beneficiary mothers
Anganwadi workers and helpers are walking an extra mile to home deliver wheat, rice, pulses, oil, in some states even eggs and milk powder, to the beneficiaries of the government’s supplementary nutrition programme
Nidhi Jamwal
Lockdown enforced when they were at sea — so more than a lakh of fishers now wait in deep waters
At least a hundred thousand migrant fish workers are stranded in fishing boats off the Maharashtra coast. Meanwhile, the lockdown is a death blow to the livelihood of 16 million fishers and fish workers
Nidhi Jamwal
Dialysis patients not getting consumables or easy access to hospitals during the lockdown
Lockdown: Suppliers of dialysis consumables are reporting a shortage; kidney failure patients are finding it difficult to reach hospitals for dialysis without which they run the risk of dying
Nidhi Jamwal
The Central government’s Rs 1.70 lakh crore relief package for the poor cuts no ice
Members of the Right To Food Campaign and organisations working with informal sector workers demand wider measures to support the poor and vulnerable during coronavirus pandemic
Nidhi Jamwal
A humanitarian crisis begins to unfold as India goes under a ‘complete lockdown’
For the millions of migrant workers and daily wagers stranded on the roads amid the ‘lockdown’, with no shelter or food, hunger is more real a threat than the Coronavirus
Nidhi Jamwal
We have clapped for them. Now let us get them what they critically need to fight Corona
Doctors, health workers and frontline staff are at the highest risk as they battle the COVID-19 pandemic. We must give them what they need to fight this battle
Nidhi Jamwal
Communities most vulnerable to climate change have the lowest access to clean water
The government has committed to provide piped water to every household by 2024. But climate crisis threatens the viability of this promise. Poor and marginalized communities without access to clean water are expected to suffer the most as climate change puts more pressure on already stretched water services
Nidhi Jamwal
For anganwadis, Corona shutdown could mean safety from disease, not from hunger
The anganwadi centres and schools are shut. This stretches the nutrition needs of 158 million under-six kids and over 59 million children in primary and upper primary government schools
Nidhi Jamwal
“Social distancing”: A call that ignores ground realities of millions of Indians
Gaon Connection spoke with public health experts and epidemiologists to understand how ‘social distancing’ would work, or not work, in India with a large chunk of poor and marginalized