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To boost numbers, Noida to double centres for vaccination drive | Noida News - Times of India

To boost numbers, Noida to double centres for vaccination drive | Noida News – Times of India

NOIDA: A less than 50% turnout of paramedical staff, including Asha and Anganwadi workers, due to hesitancy and a wait-and-watch approach, coupled with glitches in Co-WIN app, has prompted the GB Nagar health department to step up measures for the next vaccination session slated for January 28-29. It will now send out the list of health workers three days in advance to ensure early intimation for…

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Lockdown Guidelines in India

Lockdown : A complete list of activities permitted after April 2020 On April 14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country would now be extended to May 3 owing to the rising number of cases in the country. However, keeping in mind the current financial situation of low-income earners, the Centre had said that it will be permitting a few more essential services to function in areas that are not Covid-19 containment zones after April 20. “In order to mitigate hardship to the public, select additional activities would be allowed, which would come into effect from 20th April 2020. However, these additional activities would be operationalized by States/ Union Territories (UTs)/ District Administrations based on strict compliance to the existing guidelines on lockdown measures. Before operating these relaxations, States/ UTs/ District Administrations shall ensure that all preparatory arrangements with regard to social distancing in offices, workplaces, factories and establishments, and other sectoral requirements are in place,” The Ministry of Home Affairs had said in an official statement. The government had issued additional guidelines on Friday permitting a few more activities for non-containment zones post April 20. The government’s citizen portal MyGov had later shared a list of activities that are permitted and the services which will remain shut according to the new guidelines on social media.

Here’s a complete list of what is permitted and what isn’t in select areas across the country starting Tuesday as shared by MyGov What is permitted? Financial services • RBI and other RBI regulated financial markets and entities • Banks, ATM and IT vendors for banking operations • SEBI and capital and debt market services • IRDAI and insurance companies Commercial services • Print and electronic media • IT services with up to 50 per cent capacity • Data and call centres for government activities • CSCs at panchayat level • E-commerce companies, e-commerce functions for non-essential items such as mobile phone, laptops, refrigerators, etc. • Courier services • Cold storage and warehousing • Private security and facilities management services; hotels, homestays, etc. • Establishment for quarantine facilities • Self-employed services like electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc. Movement of people • Private vehicles for medical emergency services and for getting essential commodities • In case of a four-wheeler, one passenger in the back seat beside the driver is permitted • For two-wheelers, only one driver is permitted • All personnel travelling to their workplace as exempted by State/UT/Local authority Social services • Home for children, juveniles, divyang (handicapped), elderly etc. will be allowed to function. This includes observation homes and aftercare homes • Disbursement of social security pensions and provident fund by EPFO • Operation of Anganwadis Agricultural activities • Farming operations in fields • Functioning of agencies engaged in getting agricultural products • Machinery shops • Custom hiring centres • Services related to fertilizers and seeds • APMC markets and Mandis • Direct marketing operations for agriculture • Harvesting and sowing • Operation of fishing like processing and sale, hatcheries, commercial aquaria • Plantations of tea, coffee and rubber allowed with a maximum 50 per cent workers • Animal husbandry including distribution and sale of milk products, animal shelter homes, etc. Health services • Hospitals and nursing homes • Telemedicine facilities • Medical shops and dispensaries • Medical research, COVID-19 related labs and collection centres • Authorized private establishments • Veterinary hospitals, dispensaries and clinics, sale and supply of vaccine and medicines • Manufacturing units, medical devices and construction of health infrastructure • Movement of all medical personnel, scientists, nurses, paramedical staff, lab technicians Industrial establishments • Industries in rural areas • SEZ and export-oriented units • Industrial estates and industrial townships • Manufacturing units of essential goods • Industries producing IT hardware • Food processing units, jute industries • Coal and mineral production, O&G refinery and brick kilns in rural areas • Construction activities including roads, irrigation projects, renewable energy projects and construction projects in municipalities Cargo and essential services • Transportation of cargo inter and intrastate by air, rail, land and sea routes • Carrier vehicles with only two drivers and one helper are allowed • Empty vehicles for delivery/pick up of goods • The supply chain of essential goods like manufacturing, wholesale, retail, shops/ carts for essential goods • Large bricks and mortar stores, dhabas and truck repair shops on the highway, movement of staff and labourers for essential services Additional services • Collection, harvesting and processing of minor forest produce, non-timber forest produce by ST and forest dwellers • Bamboo, coconut, areca nut, cocoa, spices plantations and their harvesting sale and marketing • NBFCs including Housing Finance and Micro FInance COmpanies with bare minimum staff, cooperative credit societies • Construction activities in rural areas to include water supply and sanitation, power, telecom and cable lines. What is shut? • Domestic and international air travel • Passenger trains, buses, metro, taxis • Interstate transport except for security and medical purposes • Industrial and commercial activities • Hospitality services • Educational, training and coaching institutions • Cinema halls, malls, gyms, bards, pools, entertainment parks, assembly halls, etc. • All social, political, sports, complexes, religious places and other gatherings. What about hotspots? The State, UT and district administrations are to decide the hotspots across the country. Hotspots are areas of large COVlD-19 outbreaks or clusters with a significant spread of COVlD-19. They will be determined based on the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (Gol). These exemptions given after April 20 will not be applicable to hotspots. Furthermore, containment zones in hotspots are to be demarcated by states UT district administration. Strict perimeter control has to be put in place to ensure no unchecked inward outward movement is carried out except for essential services including medical and law enforcement services permitted in these zones The areas where limited movement is permitted will face similar measures in case a COvid-19 positive case is reported from the area. The government had also issued detailed guidelines and preventive measures that need to be followed by workplaces and manufacturing industries including compulsion of wearing facemasks, avoiding overcrowing of elevators, disinfecting the premises at regular interviews and compulsory thermal screening of workers at large stablishments. The penalty for the violation for lockdown is based on the Disaster Management Act of 2005. Any person found violating the lockdown rules will be charged under the provisions of Section 51 to 60 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, besides legal action under Sec. 188 of the IPC, and other legal provisions as applicable.

Lockdown 3.0: What’s allowed, what’s not from tomorrow

Covid-19 lockdown extended: The MHA said a limited number of activities will remain prohibited across the country, irrespective of the zones. These include travel by air, rail, metro and inter-state movement by road. The third phase of the coronavirus enforced lockdown to break the chain of transmission will kick in from Monday after the government extended the nationwide lockdown for two more weeks. According to latest figures provided by the Health Ministry, the total number of coronavirus cases climbed to 40,263 with as many as 1,306 fatalities. The ministry said 2487 cases and 73 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.  “After a comprehensive review and in view of the lockdown measures having led to significant gains in the Covid-19 situation, the government has decided to further extend the lockdown,” the MHA order read. The MHA further said a limited number of activities will remain prohibited across the country, irrespective of the zones,including travel by air, rail, metro and inter-state movement by road; running of schools, colleges, and other educational and training/coaching institutions.  Here’s what all will not be allowed under the new guidelines issued today irrespective of the zone * Travel by air, rail, metro and inter-state movement by road * Running of schools, colleges and other educational, training, coaching institutions * Hospitality services including hotels and restaurants * Places of large public gatherings such as cinema halls, malls, gyms, sports complexes * Social, political, cultural and other kinds of gatherings * Religious places, places of worship for public However, movement of persons by air, rail and road is allowed for select purposes and for those permitted by the MHA. The MHA order has also prescribed measures for the “well being and safety of persons.”

The order states that movement of individuals in all zones for all non-essential activities, shall remain strictly prohibited between 7 pm and 7 am. Local authorities shall issue orders imposing Section 144 and ensure strict compliance, the order states. In all zones, those above the age of 65, persons with co-morbidities, pregnant women and children below the age of 10 years, shall stay at home except for meeting essential requirements and for health purporses. OPDs and medical clinics shall be permitted to operate in Red, Orange and Green Zones with social distancing norms and other preventive measures. However, these will not be permitted in containment zones. These activities are not allowed in Red Zones * Plying of cycle rickshaws and auto rickshaws; * Running of taxis and cab aggregators; * Intra-district and inter-district plying of buses; * Barber shops, spas and saloons Here’s what all is allowed in Red Zones * Movement of individuals and vehicles is allowed only for permitted activities, with a maximum of 2 persons (besides the driver) in four-wheeler vehicles, and with no pillion rider in the case of two-wheelers * Industrial establishments in urban areas – Special Economic Zones (SEZs), Export Oriented Units (EOUs), industrial estates and industrial townships with access control have been permitted * Manufacturing units of essential goods, including drugs, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, their raw material and intermediates; production units, which require continuous process, and their supply chain; manufacturing of IT hardware; jute industry with staggered shifts and social distancing; and, manufacturing units of packaging material * Construction activities in urban areas have been limited to in-situ construction (where workers are available on site and no workers are required to be brought in from outside) and construction of renewable energy projects. * Shops in urban areas, for non-essential goods, are not allowed in malls, markets and market complexes. * All industrial and construction activity in rural areas, including MNREGA works, food-processing units and brick-kilns * In rural areas, without distinction of nature of goods, all shops except in shopping malls, are permitted * All agricultural activities – sowing, harvesting, procurement and marketing operations in the agricultural supply chain are permitted. * Animal husbandry activities are fully permitted including fisheries * All plantation activities are allowed, including their processing and marketing. * All health services (including AYUSH) are to remain functional, including transport of medical personnel and patients through air ambulances * Financial sector to remain open largely. This includes banks, non-banking finance companies, insurance and capital market activities, and credit co-op societies * Operation of homes for children, senior citizens, destitutes, women and widows, etc * Operation of anganwadis * Public utilities in power, water, sanitation, waste management, telecommunication and internet * Courier and postal services * E-Commerce activities, in the Red Zones, are permitted only in respect of essential goods * Private offices can operate with upto 33% strength as per requirement, with the remaining persons working from home * All standalone (single) shops, neighborhood (colony) shops and shops in residential complexes are permitted to remain open in urban areas, without any distinction of essential and non-essential. * All Government offices shall function with senior officers of the level of Deputy Secretary and above at full strength, and the remaining staff attending upto 33% as per requirement. Defense and Security services, Health and Family Welfare, Police, Prisons, Home Guards, Civil Defence, Fire and Emergency Services, Disaster management and related services, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Customs, Food Corporation of India (FCI), National Cadet Corps (NCC), Nehru Yuvak Kendra (NYK) and Municipal services shall function without any restrictions; delivery of public services shall be ensured and necessary staff will be deployed for such purpose. * Print and electronic media, IT and IT enabled services, data and call centres, cold storage and warehousing services, private security and facility management services, and services provided by self-employed persons, except for barbers etc. * Manufacturing units of essential goods, including drugs, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, their raw material and intermediates; production units, which require continuous process, and their supply chain * Jute industry with staggered shifts and social distancing; and manufacturing of IT hardware and manufacturing units of packaging material will continue to be permitted. What all is allowed in Orange Zones In addition to activities permitted in Red Zone, below are the additional activities that are now permitted taxis and cab aggregators will be permitted with 1 driver and 1 passenger only. Inter-district movement of individuals and vehicles will be allowed for permitted activities only. Four wheeler vehicles will have maximum two passengers besides the driver and pillion riding will be allowed on two-wheelers. What all is allowed in Green Zones All activities are permitted except the limited number of activities which are prohibited throughout the country, irrespective of the Zone. Buses can operate with upto 50% seating capacity and bus depots can operate with upto 50% capacity. These are the nationwide guidelines for workplaces * Wearing of face cover is compulsory in all work places and adequate stock of such face covers shall be made available. * All persons in charge of work places shall ensure social distancing as per the guidelines issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, both within the work places and in company transport. Social distancing at work places shall be ensured through adequate gaps between shifts, staggering the lunch breaks of staff, etc. * Provision for thermal scanning, hand wash and sanitizer preferably with touch free mechanism will be made at all entry and exit points and common areas. In addition, sufficient quantities of handwash and sanitizer shall be made available in the work places. * Frequent sanitization of entire workplace, common facilities and all points which come into human contact e.g. door handles etc., shall be ensured, including between shifts. * Persons above 65 years of age, persons with co-morbidities, pregnant women and children below the age of 10 years shall stay at home, except for meeting essential requirements and for health purposes. * Use of Arogya Setu app shall be made mandatory for all employees, both private and public. It shall be the responsibility of the Head of the respective Organizations to ensure 100% coverage of this app among the employees. * Large physical meetings to be avoided. * Hospitals/ clinics in the nearby areas, which are authorized to treat COVID-19 patients, should be identified and list should be available at work place all the times. Employees showing any symptom of COVID-19 should be immediately sent for check up to such facilities. Quarantine areas should be earmarked for isolating employees showing symptoms till they are safely moved to the medical facilities. * Arrangements for transport facilities shall be ensured with social distancing, wherever personal/ public transport is not feasible. * Intensive communication and training on good hygiene practices shall be taken These are the nationwide guidelines for public places * Wearing of face cover is compulsory in all public places. * All persons in charge of public places and transport shall ensure social distancing as per the guidelines issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. * No organization/ manager of public place shall allow gathering of 5 or more persons. * Marriages related gatherings shall ensure social distancing, and the maximum number of guests allowed shall not be more than 50. * Funeral/ last rites related gatherings shall ensure social distancing, and the maximum numbers allowed shall not be more than 20 * Spitting in public places shall be punishable with fine, as may be prescribed by the State/ UT local authority. * Consumption of liquor, paan, gutka, tobacco etc. in public places is not allowed. * Shops selling liquor, paan, gutka, tobacco etc. will ensure minimum six feet distance (2 gaz ki doori) from each other, and also ensure that not more than 5 persons are present at one time at the shop The MHA order further states that across the zones, all goods traffic is to be permitted. “No State/ UT shall stop the movement of cargo for cross land-border trade under Treaties with neighbouring countries. No separate pass of any sort is needed for such movement, which is essential for maintaining the supply chain of goods and services across the country during the lockdown period,” the order states. Read the full article

Coronavirus home isolation: What you need to know - Times of India

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Coronavirus home isolation: What you need to know - Times of India

Following guidelines from the central government that mild or pre-symptomatic Covid-19 cases can be kept in home isolation, the health and family welfare department of Delhi government on Thursday issued a detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) that the patient and the caregiver will have to follow during the period.

The decision to keep patients with mild symptoms in home isolation was taken to take load off hospitals designated for patients infected with novel coronavirus and covid care centres. Officials said the move will also take care of a common problem of loneliness that patients feel when they are admitted to a hospital or a centre.

According to the data provided by the AAP government, there were 2,291 active novel coronavirus cases in the capital on Wednesday, of which 1,871 were admitted in various hospitals and care centres, while the remaining 430 were in home isolation.

As per the SOP, a health team comprising anganwadi and Asha workers under the supervision of the in-charge of a public health facility will first assess the appropriateness of the facility of a mild symptomatic Covid patient before allowing home isolation.

Apart from a separate room for the patient and other family members, who have been home quarantined, there should be a caregiver to take care of the patient 24×7.

“The SOP contains a detailed list of instructions for both the patient and the caregiver, which have to be followed strictly by both. The instructions largely include the precautions the two are required to take during the 14-day period (16 days from the date of sample taken) of home isolation,” a Delhi government’s health department official said.

During home isolation, the patient must download the Aarogya Setu mobile application and able to measure his temperature on a regular basis and inform the health status to the district surveillance officer for further follow up.

The surveillance team will actively monitor the health condition of the patient and the caregiver either telephonically or by making regular visits to their house. “In case serious symptoms such as difficulty in breathing, persistent pain or pressure in the chest, mental confusion or inability to arouse or bluish discoloration of lips or face develop immediate medical attention will have to be sought by calling up the helpline numbers,” said an official.

The SOP also includes the precautions both the patient and the caregiver are required to take including wearing of three-layered medical masks and gloves, maintaining personal hygiene, regular washing of hands among others.

Officials said the home isolation will be over in 14 days if two consecutive test reports are found to be negative but will have to be increased as per the protocol if the patient is tested positive. “Passive surveillance as mentioned in containment plan will continue around the patient even after the home isolation is over,” the official added.

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People-centric response to COVID-19 | Kerala | Editorial Hunt | 27th March 2020

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EDITORIAL 37:“Devising a people-centric response to COVID-19"

       SOURCES:   THE HINDU EDITORIAL/EDITORIALS FOR UPSC CSE MAINS 2020

  Pinarayi Vijayan Pinarayi Vijayan is the Chief Minister of Kerala         HEADLINES: Devising a people-centric response to COVID-19       CENTRAL THEME: We urgently need an economic stimulus to protect livelihoods in the period of lockdown SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3:ECONOMY       MAINS QUESTION: India is at an extremely critical stage in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. A lockdown was inevitable.Discuss possible solutions to boost economic activities. -(GS 3)       LEARNING:  This article will tell you how to react to a pandemic situation in a composed manner. Note key aspects of people eccentric approach and use them in answer related to boosting Economic Stimulus.       INTRODUCTION:  It is important that we stand united in facing this grave crisis. State must take a leadership role in enforcing the lockdown while upholding the rights and dignity of people, it must educate the citizens on the dos and don’ts of rules to follow, and it must take all sections of society with it. The health machinery has to work round the clock. At the same time, it is imperative that citizens shoulder their responsibilities and follow the rules of the lockdown strictly and diligently. Each life is precious, and any drop in our guard can quickly raise the number of the infected, thereby undermining the gains achieved. The lockdown period should be used by the Centre to not just break the infection chain, but to isolate the infected from the general population and treat those who require it with varying degrees of hospitalisation, including intensive care.       BODY:  While we must build up national-level preparedness, we must also remember that health is a State subject, and that State governments are an integral part of the governance of the nation. Fiscal federalism, decentralised governance and flexibility to the States to meet their particular needs and requirements should be a part of the fight against the virus, including coping with the lockdown and the economic recovery to follow. The Central government should create consultative bodies consisting of Union and State Ministers to identify bottlenecks and assess progress. In Kerala, we are making the utmost efforts to ensure that the supply of essential commodities, particularly food and medicines, is maintained and that the vulnerable sections of society are specifically protected. As soon as the Kerala government closed pre-schools and schools on March 10, our Women and Child Development Department made available, without missing a day’s allotment, the mandated quantities of rice, pulses, broken wheat/semolina, peanuts, jaggery, oil to all pre-school children in each anganwadi centre. It also took steps to distribute ‘Take Home Ration’ for pregnant/lactating mothers and children aged six months to three years. We undertook this intervention for 33,115 centres, and we were able to protect the nutritional needs of close to 8.3 lakh children. In some anganwadis, vegetables and eggs were also distributed. We are happy to note that the Supreme Court of India expressed appreciation for our efforts in this regard. Kerala will ensure availability of essential goods and services, and our government will not permit a single person to starve during the lockdown. We have energised our Public Distribution System (PDS) to ensure that all households that do not figure in the priority list get 15 kg of free food supplies for a month. This is in addition to the allocation of 35 kg per household for those in the priority category. We also plan to distribute food kits, with basic grocery items and vegetables. Home delivery is being arranged to avoid crowding of people in PDS outlets and grocery shops. We plan to engage our local bodies to lead this effort at the ground level. Nutritious meal plates at ₹20 per plate are being served through 1,000 canteens of the State government. Our Industries Department directed its public sector enterprises (PSEs) to raise the production and supply of hand sanitiser bottles; they immediately responded by producing an additional one lakh bottles per day. The Kerala State Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a PSE, has been provided with ₹25 crore to ensure adequate supply of medicines required for COVID-19 treatment. Inmates of our prisons, self-help groups under the government’s Kudumbashree Mission, and enterprises operating from our rubber parks were mobilised to increase the production of N95, triple layer and double layer face masks as well as surgical gloves. Our Khadi PSEs have been asked to supply adequate number of bed sheets and towels for disposable use in the hospitals. We have asked Internet Service Providers in the State to increase their network capacity by 30% to 40% to ensure that people can work from home. While we enforce the lockdown in all its seriousness, we should not lose sight of the other major challenge in front of us. India has a high share of poor in its population, most of whom suffer from multiple economic and social deprivations. They earn their livelihoods from the informal and unorganised sectors, where there is neither job security nor continuity of income flows. This is where the Kerala government has taken an initiative and come forward to announce a ₹20,000 crore economic revival package. We have a borrowing capacity of about ₹25,000 crore during the financial year 2020-21. We have requested the Central government to allow us to borrow half of this debt (about ₹12,500 crore) in April 2020 itself. So, we are also requesting the Central government to provide us with flexibility under the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act. OUR ECONOMIC PACKAGE OF ₹20,000 CRORE WILL BE SPENT ROUGHLY AS FOLLOWS: Two months of welfare pensions will be paid in advance to the pension beneficiaries. For those not eligible for welfare pensions, ₹1,320 crore has been set aside for providing an assistance of ₹1,000 per family from the BPL and Antyodaya sections. Another ₹100 crore has been set aside for providing free food grains to families in need, while ₹50 crore has been set aside for the provision of subsidised meals at ₹20 per meal. Around ₹500 crore has been set aside for a comprehensive health package, where focus will be on improving public health infrastructure and equipping the State to face such epidemics. Loans worth ₹2,000 crore will be distributed through the Kudumbashree Mission. ₹2,000 crore has been set aside for the expansion of the employment guarantee programme. ₹14,000 crore has been set aside to clear all the arrears of the State government till April 2020. Passenger vehicles have also been given tax relief. Autos and taxis have been given relaxation on payment of fitness charges. There is relaxation in the deadlines of water and electricity bill payment for affected firms. Entertainment taxes for cinema halls have been reduced.       IASbhai Windup:  Let this be the period in which we end fiscal conservatism. Extraordinary times require extraordinary action. The strict rules of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act should be set aside. We urgently need an economic stimulus to protect the people and livelihoods in the period of lockdown. Today the world must stand together in the battle for the safety and well being of humanity. We must draw strength and lessons from global and national experiences even as we redouble our efforts in building a people-centric response to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.   Read the full article

Rage Of A Silent, Invisible Killer Called Malnutrition

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Rage Of A Silent, Invisible Killer Called Malnutrition

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It is a disaster that hides in plain sight. And Key Minister Narendra Modi singles it out in his radio talks, from the ramparts of the Lal Qilla, for his forty nine.three million followers on Twitter. He hammers house his impatience for the scourge to go away: “Main bechain hoon, main besabr hoon, main vyakul hoon” and pledges a new tryst with future: a malnutrition-absolutely free India by 2022. A new countrywide lexicon is attaining floor for a little something that is not normally in the news.

At the heart of global geopolitics, India is an emerging superpower at 72. But away from the spotlights, here hunger stalks, people fight persistent starvation to stay alive, lack of food begins from the womb, underweight mothers give birth to undersized kids, although low immunity snuffs out vulnerable lives. 5 a long time into energy, the NDA government faces its hardest obstacle. And now, the Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, has sounded out a clarion get in touch with for action: “India wants a ­nutrition revolution.”

Ruby Devi stays place in a darkened space. Neighbours occur calling, to drag her out of that corner, to eat, feed her son or breastfeed her daughter. She talks about her husband, Jhingru Bhuiyan’s 12 months-long fight with stroke and paralysis, recurring attempts to get a ration card, inability to buy food or medicines, months of ingesting just rice, times of acquiring not even a grain at house, the unlit chullah, loans, begging and his dying. No expression, no tears, no anger. But as you choose leave, she arrives alive: “What will take place to us? Can you question the sarkar for absolutely free food? A ration card?”

From time to time, some areas tumble off the map. Dondagada village in Jharkhand, concealed in the maze of undulating hills, tall trees and pink mud tracks of Chatra taluk, is just one such. From time to time people, also, tumble off the grid of visibility. The household of Bhuiyan, the forty-12 months-previous Dalit who died hungry and sick on July sixteen, is just one such. Faces among the 19 crore Indians who slumber hungry each and every night time, among the just one-third of the world’s ­malnourished, and twenty five lakh citizens who die of starvation-connected results in each and every 12 months. A disquieting existence amidst India’s new plenty—consumed by crushing poverty, wracked by malnutrition, inhibited from achieving full opportunity. How absolutely free are they as India turns 72?

Kavita, Anganwadi worker, Delhi

She was appointed ­anganwadi worker beneath the ICDS scheme in September 2014. Her ­commitment reflects from the length she has been covering from her house in Higher Noida to Nardan Basti, south Delhi, for do the job each and every working day since December 2015. The mother of two has been training kids down below six and really like to do the job with young children in this age group. This really like enthusiastic her to turn into an anganwadi worker.

INVISIBLE Crisis

Bhadumari village of Vidarbha in Maharashtra lies in the foothills of the Pandharkawada ranges. On a ordinary working day, shiny-eyed, barefoot kids in university uniform sing-song, “Namaste.” But none of them are 4-toes-two-inches tall nevertheless, the suitable height for an 8-12 months-previous mandated by the Entire world Health and fitness Organisation (WHO). Most of them have sabzi with roti or rice at house, but really like coming to university for the 2 times-weekly eggs they get. What else do they like? Fruits, they say: jamun, sitaphal, narangi. Inquire them how normally they eat fruits, they tumble silent. Inquire about the village and no mother mentions ­malnutrition to be an problem.

Just one in three kids is stunted in India, also small for their age. Just one in 5 Indian kids suffers from throwing away, also slender for their height. Just one in 4 is underweight, also slender for one’s age, experiences the World wide Hunger Index 2018. “The challenge with malnutrition is that it is not seen,” states Shawn K. Baker, director of diet, World wide Advancement System, Bill & Melinda Gates Basis. “Be it iron ­deficiency or of vitamin A, malnutrition is practically often concealed.” In particular, when ­almost each and every baby is undernourished and modest, it ceases to be a “problem”. What’s stressing is the havoc that malnutrition can cause to a child’s cognitive talents, mind improvement, wellness and product­ivity—often irreversibly—starting in the first two a long time of daily life.

Ninety kilometres from Lucknow, the highway prospects up to Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh. The sluggish meandering Gomti river retains rate. Named just after Sita of Ramayana, the region will take pleasure in its epic legacy. But suitable now, it is a cause for fret: Sitapur is among the ten districts in the region that experience the greatest prevalence of malnutrition. Sitapur also tops in teenager relationship and being pregnant: around 36 for every cent married girls are adolescents, although 8 for every cent of the fifteen-19 age group are by now mothers—much greater than the condition and countrywide normal. Listed here, just sixteen for every cent girls get to examine further than class ten.

Indians who slumber hungry each and every night time selection 19 crore. They are just one-third of the world’s ­malnourished.

It is the magic formula story of India. Three-quarters of the world’s teenage births choose put in India. New investigation displays how the wellness of kids born to adolescent mothers is significantly inferior to these born to adult mothers (The Lancet Boy or girl & Adolescent Health and fitness, July 2019). A 2015 examine from the Harvard T.H. Chan University of Community Health and fitness pinpoints the 5 most ­important predictors of childhood ­malnourishment, three of which have a ­direct url to mothers: maternal underweight, small maternal stature, a mother with no training, extraordinary poverty and lousy ­dietary diversity. “Undernourished girls turn into undernourished mothers, who in turn give birth to low-fat ­babies, perpetuating a vicious cycle,” states Basanta Kumar Kar, region director at Job Problem Intercontinental.

Doctors across the region are analysing psychological maps of communities to comprehend malnutrition. What they obtain is an eye-opener: misconceptions, myths and malpractices in the title of customs and traditions, normally dictated by aged girls of the home. A workforce from King Geo­rge’s Health-related College, Lucknow, report how in Sitapur, Hardoi and Barabanki locations newborns are routinely denied colostrum, the first milk that gives immunity for daily life, and fed with meals of honey, ghutti (designed of herbs, additives and honey), water, sugar-water or animal milk as a substitute of mother’s milk in the first handful of times.

Dr M.V. Ramana Rao of SVS Health-related College Clinic, Telangana, displays that the infant is not presented to the mother in ninety for every cent of deliveries, mostly owing to conventional household follow of first wiping and cleaning the infant in advance of passing it on to a senior household member. It is the family’s ­decision to toss away the colostrum (the first phase of breast milk which is essential for a child’s immunity), as a little something dirty and harmful in most cases, or giving the infant feeds or components milk as the first feed, ­instead of breastmilk.

When Dr Manjit Kaur Bal first observed the shrunken duo—a mother and child—she was shocked. The baby couldn’t keep his head up due to the fact he was so malnourished and the mother was hardly in a much better condition to choose care of him or of herself. As the leader of the Samerth Charitable Have faith in in Chhattisgarh, Bal has worked for long with some of India’s ‘particularly ­vulnerable tribal groups’—people wracked by poverty and starvation, dissociated from improvement procedures, displaced from habitats and livelihood by depleting ­forests and encroachment.

Mangala Ramkrishna Vidhale, Anganwadi worker, Amravati, Maharashtra

The Melghat area, ­comprising Dharni and Chikhaldhara blocks, in Amravati district has a tiger reserve in its ­vicinity. It also has the greatest ­malnutrition and infant mortality cases. Vidhale conducts quite a few ­community functions to address malnutrition, such as rallies, cleanliness drives, festive events, and fosters a competitive ­environment as a result of the Mata Samitee.

“The tribal food basket has often been ­diverse and nutritious, such as maize, minimal millets like kodo and kutki, oil seeds like ramtila, alongside with fruits, leaves, ­rhizomes, mushrooms, meat and fish,” states Bal. “We have pushed them out of their complementary marriage with ecology, way of daily life and time-analyzed diet.”

Worried with the important situation of the mother and baby, Bal took them to a diet rehabilitation centre, gov­ernment stores the place significant acute ­malnourished kids down below 5 a long time are admitted with their mothers for therapy. But they escaped inside a handful of times. When Bal caught up with her, the mother stated, “The rains are coming. There is a large amount of do the job in the fields. If I stay away now, my complete household will miss out on food for a 12 months.” Does diet make a difference when starvation pangs harm? “Even nowadays, we present minimal ­support price tag to paddy, not to nutritious millets that sustained people for hundreds of a long time,” she states. “In 72 a long time, we have altered people’s food basket. It will not be effortless to give their diet back again to them.”

“It’s a male-designed disaster,” states Balram, advisor to the Supreme Court on suitable to food, in Ranchi. Until eventually the sixties, India had a sustainable agricultural method and pure food security, describes the act­ivist who worked closely with Jayaprakash Narayan’s movement in Bihar. Men and women grew whichever they wanted, or collected from the surroundings—weeds, herbs, fruits, fish, livestock. The consumption of conventional coarse grains, pulses and millets, prosperous sources of vegetable protein with well balanced amino acid profile, was exceptionally huge.

The environmentally friendly ­revolution altered the way people ate. A host of indigenous grains, seeds and millets disappeared.

The landscape altered from the 1970s, in the wake of the environmentally friendly revolution. Targeted completely on wheat and rice, successive ­governments promoted rapid adoption of technological know-how, superior-yielding grains, intense farming, chemical fertilisers and price tag ­assurance. But pulses and millets, Indian eating plan staples and affordable sources of energy and protein, have been ­neglected. A host of indigenous grains, seeds and millets disappeared, although creation of pulses declined, as rates shot up. It led to a elementary alter in the way people ate, placing modest farmers at the mercy of huge ­commercial farmers, and dis­solving the concept of village group. “From about the mid-1990s, modest farmer suicides and hunger deaths begun receiving ­reported,” Balram recollects.

“The environment and India so significantly has centered on food security and we have obtained a large amount,” states Purvi Mehta, Head of Asia for Agriculture at the Bill and Melinda Gates Basis. “Having arrived at that really hard-acquired intention, the following step is tackling malnutrition,” she states. The affect of the word, even so, goes further than starvation and health—about forty for every cent of university absence in rural India is ­attributed to only just one aspect: malnutrition. Identical is the cause guiding about thirty for every cent of absence of labourers in rural India’s workforce, Mehta factors out.

CAN Hunger End?

The Sustainable Advancement Plans, pushed by the United Nations and adopted by all member states, communicate of ending ­hunger by 2030. The financial toll of ­malnutrition is heavy—with Africa and Asia shedding an approximated 11 for every cent of GDP each and every 12 months to it from productiveness loss—but the price of eradicating starvation will also be weighty, say authorities (see graphic, p.fifty six). And the price will be drastically greater for superior-load international locations such as India. According to a new report by the UN Foods and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), $267 billion will be needed for every 12 months from 2016 to 2030.

India’s response is the POSHAN (Key Minister’s Overarching Plan for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan or the Countrywide Diet Mission, established up with a three-12 months funds of Rs nine,046.seventeen crore starting off 2017-18. A search at the condition-smart knowledge reveals that of Rs three,142.seventeen crore ­released to states till March 2019, just  Rs 569.ninety two crores have been utilised. The fund ­remains beneath-utilised in a selection of states: West Bengal, Odisha, Goa, Karnataka, Bihar, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Punjab, Kerala, Assam, Delhi and Haryana.

Shanta Garg, ASHA worker, Udaipur, Rajasthan

She is a postgraduate operating in Dulawato Ka Guda village, Badgaon block of Udaipur. Through visits to unique residences in the region, she arrived to know of two expecting girls who have been not ­registered for ante-natal care at the wellness centre. Their mothers-in-regulation have been not allowing them. So Garg fulfilled the moms-in-regulation and convinced them about the care. She tends to make it a stage to assure ­everyone gets the reward of the scheme.

“Whenever you imagine of the PM, be it to criticise or to compliment, imagine of POSHAN Mission and not Narendra Modi.” On March 8, 2018, when the PM released POSHAN Abhiyaan in the modest city of Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, his extraordinary words had diet gurus across the region sit up and choose be aware. At the end of the working day, malnutrition can be ­tackled only if international locations have the political will. “Nutrition is no longer a sectoral concern,” states Hisham Mundol, government director, Children’s Investment Fund Basis. “Nutrition is an financial, social justice and political problem.”

To senior bureaucrat and previous ­mission director of Poshan Abhiyaan, Dr Rajesh Kumar, India often had mal­nutrition on its radar. Two of the world’s earliest and major schemes to cut down malnutrition in children—Integrated Boy or girl Advancement Solutions (ICDS) in 1975 and Mid-Day Meals in 1962—were released by India, apart from a range of 21 policy selections on malnutrition since Independence. “But in 72 a long time, gov­ernments have altered, fallen asleep, woken up, on and off,” adds Kumar. “The target on diet has waxed and waned accordingly.”

With POSHAN ­Abhiyaan, for the first time, there is the concept of a ­people’s movement about diet.

The drumbeats of shame begun rolling from 2007, when UNICEF introduced that an Indian baby was far more very likely to be ­malnourished than a baby in Ethiopia. Former PM Manmohan Singh termed it a “national shame” that the amazing GDP development for a ten years and a fifty percent had scarcely dented baby malnutrition premiums. To Dr Rajan Sankar, director of diet, Tata Trusts, it has been a “big implementation and ­targeting failure”. In 2004, the Supreme Court handed a historic verdict for growing the anganwadi method of frontline employees beneath ICDS. “India has compensated ­attention to amount, but not so significantly to the good quality of that method. This is the place everything need to take place,” states Dr Shankar.

In several means, POSHAN Abhiyaan will be a “game-changer”, states Alok Kumar, member of NITI-Aayog, which performed an instrumental position in adopting the scheme. For the first time, there are very clear definitions and achievable targets, ­nutrition is not remaining equalled to food, there is multi-sectoral convergence of ministries led by the girls and baby ­development office, there is the concept of a people’s movement—jan andolan—to choose it ahead, and there is technological know-how, to get actual-time knowledge to keep track of and information the initiative at the grassroots. “Without all this, the before interventions arrived at only 5 to ten for every cent of the people,” states Kumar.

Dig deeper, listen more difficult, search longer: a hundred audacious tips are placing ­social alter into action. Hundreds of diet warriors—anganwadi sevikas to Swasth Bharat preraks, group ­mobiliser didis to badlav didis—are sprea­ding the superior word, engaging people and making alter.

Nisha Choubisa, ASHA worker, Udaipur, Rajasthan

This graduate begun operating with Asha in Majawada village, Bhindr block of Udaipur, last 12 months. The obstacle was the low attendance of expecting girls in mother and baby wellness diet ­programmes. Skilled to carry out group ­meetings to spread ­awareness, she arrived at out to expecting girls and explained to them about the importance of ante-natal care. Just after three ­meetings, the results confirmed.

Throughout Maharashtra, hundreds of ­kirtankars are linking devotional abhangs to the importance of diet to the mother and baby, and influencing household matriarchs, who in any other case ignore wellness advisories. India’s poorest and hungriest people, the rat-catching Musahars of Varanasi, are escalating kitchen gardens in their backyards. Their eating plan of rice or roti with salt is now peppered with sponge gourd and squash, pumpkin and bitter gourd. Throughout Bihar and UP, government medical colleges are integrating maternal, infant and youthful baby diet into the undergraduate curriculum. In villages across Chhattisgarh, lactating foster mothers, dharam dai, are feeding kids, although bahu, saas and pati sammelan are decoding breastfeeding. In Kerala, healthy infant displays by paediatricians and medical students are encouraging mothers to breastfeed their kids properly. Females across Jharkhand are now cooking in iron vessels to overcome anaemia.

In Rajasthan, villages, the sarpanches are rallying for the diet wants of their people, getting part in panchayat workshops and ­comparing notes with peer teams in other villages.

In Maharashtra, ­kirtankars are ­linking devotional abhangs to diet for influencing ­family matriarchs.

When Shashanka Ala joined as deputy commissioner of Lawngtlai—one of Mizoram’s remote districts bordering Bangladesh and Myanmar—she enrolled her just one-12 months-previous son in the closest ­anganwadi. Although she was happy that he designed new friends, she observed that he was coming house with choose-house ration in modest packets of typically rice and dal. “My first intervention was to make certain that scorching cooked meals have been served in the ­anganwadi,” she states. Even more enquiry ­revealed that most kids in the region have been undernourished. A new and lactating mother herself, and a powerful advocate of exceptional breastfeeding, she joined it to the unavailability of fresh fruits and ­vegetables in the area and inadequate infrastructure to cook scorching meals. Just after rounds of discussions with the stake­holders, group NGOs and church ­elders, ‘Kan Sikul, Kan Huan’ (my university, my farm) was developed, and armed with seeds, compost and gardening products, mom and dad, academics and kids begun creating their have veggies. The pilot job proved so thriving that it was released in all the anganwadis and faculties in the district.

Significantly away from Mizoram, tiny toddlers are acquiring a romp in their group creche in Churgui village of Jharkhand. Designed by Ekjut, a non-earnings established by Dr Prasanta Kishore Tripathy and his spouse Nirmala Nair, it is a group ­partnership. The baby-carers are decided on by the panchayat, and Ekjut makes certain their teaching. Little ones get a protected and safeguarded setting, protected consuming water, security from home smoke, hand washing ­stations, 4 nourishing meals and learn hygiene—for 8 hours each and every working day. “We keep track of their language, cognitive and bodily development,” states Tripathy. “Most importantly, we retain a constant ­dialogue with girls and the group as a result of participatory conferences.”

Reshma Shankar Dhote, Anganwadi worker, Amravati, Maharashtra

Her regular dwelling-to-dwelling visits, counselling expecting girls and their people, have designed the villagers aware of the ­importance of diet. She also organises rallies, conferences with teenage teams and recognition drives on wellness difficulties. Most of it is accomplished as a result of the Annaprashan ­programme, which ­provides clarity about ­the immunisation and the food expecting mothers need to choose to have healthy infants.

In excess of the past 5 a long time, the Ekjut workforce has been documenting their development parameters. Just one file on each individual baby, exhibiting development charts and graphs and progress from hazardous pink zone, as a result of yellow to a healthy environmentally friendly. The outcome has been startling—27 for every cent reduction in throwing away, 27 for every cent in stunting and forty for every cent in underweight—drawing global accolades and coverage in prestigious medical journal, The Lancet. “It’s an enjoyable second. The obstacle is to do points in a way not attempted in advance of,” states Tripathy.

Pleased Hour

Little ones perform just after a food at their group ­creche in Churgui village of Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district.

Photograph by Usha Ramesh

It is playtime now. “Hijume, hijume (occur, occur),” invitations Saraswati, 27, just one of the baby-carers. Little ones pretend to be butterflies, pampargo in the area Ho ­dialect. They, sing, dance, clap and snicker: “Dup pe pampargo, undem pe pampargo, tingur pe pampargo (sit, bend, stand, dance, wriggle like a butterfly).” The scent of food wafts from a thatched kitchen close by, alongside with the clanking of ­stainless metal. The kids leap in pleasure as they are lined up for hand-washing. They sit in a circle, wield spoons and dig into khichdi with boiled eggs. As they drift off to slumber beneath a large mosquito net, 9-month-previous Pardhan Gop’s mother turns up. It is her time to breastfeed him. “They learn new points and eat nourishing food, although we are absolutely free to do our do the job,” she smiles. The sun fades further than the ­conical Chari Buru hills of West Singhbhum, cow bells tinkle and ­children’s laughter ring out.

“The State shall regard raising the amount of diet and normal of dwelling of its people and advancement in general public wellness among the its main responsibilities,” states Write-up 47 of the Constitution of India. But just after 72 a long time of Independence, liberty obviously suggests unique points to unique people. But the time has occur for everyone to ­declare a new independence: liberty from malnutrition for all.

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Daily News Articles/Editorials 27th March 2020 DEVISING A PEOPLE-CENTRIC RESPONSE TO COVID-19 THEME: We urgently need an economic stimulus to protect livelihoods in the period of lockdown India is at an extremely critical stage in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. A lockdown was inevitable. About 21 States, including Kerala, had already announced lockdowns of various durations before the Prime Minister’s announcement. It is important that we stand united in facing this grave crisis

As we make our way through the lockdown, the State has major responsibilities.

It must take a leadership role in enforcing the lockdown while upholding the rights and dignity of people, it must educate the citizens on the dos and don’ts of rules to follow, and it must take all sections of society with it.

The health machinery has to work round the clock. At the same time, it is imperative that citizens shoulder their responsibilities and follow the rules of the lockdown strictly and diligently.

Each life is precious, and any drop in our guard can quickly raise the number of the infected, thereby undermining the gains achieved.

The lockdown period should be used by the Centre to not just break the infection chain, but to isolate the infected from the general population and treat those who require it with varying degrees of hospitalisation, including intensive care.

I welcome the announcement of the Prime Minister to set aside ₹15,000 crore for emergencies. However, we need clarity on how this money will be spent and on how States will be helped by the Centre in the expansion of health infrastructure.

Working together on Health:

The Union Government has made some important announcements on March 26.

While I welcome the relief package, I also urge that it be expanded in the coming days.

While we must build up national-level preparedness, we must also remember that health is a State subject, and that State governments are an integral part of the governance of the nation.

Fiscal federalism, decentralised governance and flexibility to the States to meet their particular needs and requirements should be a part of the fight against the virus, including coping with the lockdown and the economic recovery to follow.

The Central government should create consultative bodies consisting of Union and State Ministers to identify bottlenecks and assess progress.

In Kerala, we are making the utmost efforts to ensure that the supply of essential commodities, particularly food and medicines, is maintained and that the vulnerable sections of society are specifically protected.

As soon as the Kerala government closed pre-schools and schools on March 10, our Women and Child Development Department made available, without missing a day’s allotment, the mandated quantities of rice, pulses, broken wheat/semolina, peanuts, jaggery, oil to all pre-school children in each anganwadi centre.

It also took steps to distribute ‘Take Home Ration’ for pregnant/lactating mothers and children aged six months to three years.

We undertook this intervention for 33,115 centres, and we were able to protect the nutritional needs of close to 8.3 lakh children. In some anganwadis, vegetables and eggs were also distributed.

The Kerala Approach:

Kerala will ensure availability of essential goods and services, and our government will not permit a single person to starve during the lockdown.

We have energised our Public Distribution System (PDS) to ensure that all households that do not figure in the priority list get 15 kg of free food supplies for a month.

This is in addition to the allocation of 35 kg per household for those in the priority category. We also plan to distribute food kits, with basic grocery items and vegetables.

To the deserving people now in quarantine, the government is already distributing such kits. Home delivery is being arranged to avoid crowding of people in PDS outlets and grocery shops.

We plan to engage our local bodies to lead this effort at the ground level. Further, nutritious meal plates at ₹20 per plate are being served through 1,000 canteens of the State government.

Our Industries Department directed its public sector enterprises (PSEs) to raise the production and supply of hand sanitiser bottles; they immediately responded by producing an additional one lakh bottles per day.

The Kerala State Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a PSE, has been provided with ₹25 crore to ensure adequate supply of medicines required for COVID-19 treatment.

Inmates of our prisons, self-help groups under the government’s Kudumbashree Mission, and enterprises operating from our rubber parks were mobilised to increase the production of N95, triple layer and double layer face masks as well as surgical gloves.

Our Khadi PSEs have been asked to supply adequate number of bed sheets and towels for disposable use in the hospitals.

We have asked Internet Service Providers in the State to increase their network capacity by 30% to 40% to ensure that people can work from home.

While we enforce the lockdown in all its seriousness, we should not lose sight of the other major challenge in front of us.

India has a high share of poor in its population, most of whom suffer from multiple economic and social deprivations.

They earn their livelihoods from the informal and unorganised sectors, where there is neither job security nor continuity of income flows. Their livelihoods have to be protected through the lockdown period.

Economic Package:

This is where the Kerala government has taken an initiative and come forward to announce a ₹20,000 crore economic revival package. We have a borrowing capacity of about ₹25,000 crore during the financial year 2020-21.

We have requested the Central government to allow us to borrow half of this debt (about ₹12,500 crore) in April 2020 itself. This will be a major source of the ₹20,000 crore package the government has announced.

This frontloading should not mean less expenditure later in the year. So, we are also requesting the Central government to provide us with flexibility under the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act. We are hoping that the Centre will permit this.

Our economic package of ₹20,000 crore will be spent roughly as follows. Two months of welfare pensions will be paid in advance to the pension beneficiaries.

For those not eligible for welfare pensions, ₹1,320 crore has been set aside for providing an assistance of ₹1,000 per family from the BPL and Antyodaya sections.

Another ₹100 crore has been set aside for providing free food grains to families in need, while ₹50 crore has been set aside for the provision of subsidised meals at ₹20 per meal.

Around ₹500 crore has been set aside for a comprehensive health package, where focus will be on improving public health infrastructure and equipping the State to face such epidemics.

Loans worth ₹2,000 crore will be distributed through the Kudumbashree Mission. ₹2,000 crore has been set aside for the expansion of the employment guarantee programme.

Further, around ₹14,000 crore has been set aside to clear all the arrears of the State government till April 2020.

Passenger vehicles have also been given tax relief. Autos and taxis have been given relaxation on payment of fitness charges.

There is relaxation in the deadlines of water and electricity bill payment for affected firms. Entertainment taxes for cinema halls have been reduced.

Let this be the period in which we end fiscal conservatism. Extraordinary times require extraordinary action. The strict rules of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act should be set aside.

We urgently need an economic stimulus to protect the people and livelihoods in the period of lockdown.

Today the world must stand together in the battle for the safety and well being of humanity.

We must draw strength and lessons from global and national experiences even as we redouble our efforts in building a people-centric response to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SAFEGUARDING THE VULNERABLE AMONG USTHEME:

The effectiveness of our response will be judged by what we do to protect the weakest sections of our society.

The human dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic reach far beyond the critical health response. All aspects of our future will be affected — economic, social and developmental. Our response must be urgent, coordinated and on a global scale, and should immediately deliver help to those most in need.

From workplaces, to enterprises, to national and global economies, getting this right is predicated on social dialogue between government and those on the front line — the employers and workers, so that the 2020s don’t become a re-run of the 1930s.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that as many as 25 million people could become unemployed, with a loss of workers’ income of as much as $3.4 trillion. However, it is already becoming clear that these numbers may underestimate the magnitude of the impact.

This pandemic has mercilessly exposed the deep fault lines in our labour markets. Enterprises of all sizes have already stopped operations, cut working hours and laid off staff.

Many are teetering on the brink of collapse as shops and restaurants close, flights and hotel bookings are cancelled, and businesses shift to remote working.

Often the first to lose their jobs are those whose employment was already precarious — sales clerks, waiters, kitchen staff, baggage handlers and cleaners.

Weak safety nets:

In a world where only one in five people are eligible for unemployment benefits, lay-offs spell catastrophe for millions of families.

Because paid sick leave is not available to many carers and delivery workers — those we all now rely on — they are often under pressure to continue working even if they are ill. In the developing world, piece-rate workers, day labourers and informal traders may be similarly pressured by the need to put food on the table.

We will all suffer because of this. It will not only increase the spread of the virus but, in the longer-term, dramatically amplify cycles of poverty and inequality.

We have a chance to save millions of jobs and enterprises, if governments act decisively to ensure business continuity, prevent lay-offs and protect vulnerable workers.

We should have no doubt that the decisions they take today will determine the health of our societies and economies for years to come.

Unprecedented, expansionary fiscal and monetary policies are essential to prevent the current headlong downturn from becoming a prolonged recession.

We must make sure that people have enough money in their pockets to make it to the end of the week — and the next. This means ensuring that enterprises — the source of income for millions of workers — can remain afloat during the sharp downturn and so are positioned to restart as soon as conditions allow.

In particular, tailored measures will be needed for the most vulnerable workers, including the self-employed, part-time workers and those in temporary employment, who may not qualify for unemployment or health insurance and who are harder to reach.

Flattening the curve:

As governments try to flatten the upward curve of infection, we need special measures to protect the millions of health and care workers (most of them women) who risk their own health for us every day.

Truckers and seafarers, who deliver medical equipment and other essentials, must be adequately protected. Teleworking offers new opportunities for workers to keep working, and employers to continue their businesses through the crisis.

However, workers must be able to negotiate these arrangements so that they retain balance with other responsibilities, such as caring for children, the sick or the elderly, and of course, themselves.

Many countries have already introduced unprecedented stimulus packages to protect their societies and economies and keep cash flowing to workers and businesses.

To maximise the effectiveness of those measures, it is essential for governments to work with employers’ organisations and trade unions to come up with practical solutions, which keep people safe and to protect jobs.

These measures include income support, wage subsidies and temporary lay-off grants for those in more formal jobs, tax credits for the self-employed, and financial support for businesses.

But as well as strong domestic measures, decisive multilateral action must be a keystone of a global response to a global enemy.

In these most difficult of times, I recall a principle set out in the ILO’s Constitution: “Poverty anywhere remains a threat to prosperity everywhere.”

It reminds us that, in years to come, the effectiveness of our response to this existential threat may be judged not just by the scale and speed of the cash injections, or whether the recovery curve is flat or steep, but by what we did for the most vulnerable among us.

HOW iaINDIA CONTAIN THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19THEME:

COVID-19 pandemic has effectively brought normal life to a halt in India.

The importance of social distancing and a lockdown in curbing the spread of the virus cannot be stressed enough, but these measures also have huge repercussions on livelihoods and the economy at large, which has already been seeing a slowdown over the past year.

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Madhya Pradesh Spends On Ministers' Bungalows As Anganwadis Danger Shutdown

http://tinyurl.com/y2mwxg3e PWD minister Sajjan Singh Verma spoke within the Madhya Pradesh meeting. Bhopal:  A money crunch might have put 20,000 crucial child-care centres vulnerable to shutting down in Madhya Pradesh however on the subject of the facelift and renovation of the ministers’ bungalows, authorities funds are flowing freely. The Anganwadi centres in Madhya Pradesh, mandated to deal with and help youngsters, are on the verge of shutting down because the state is but to launch Rs 40 crore. However the state authorities has spent over Rs 3.68 crore on the restore of the official bungalows of its ministers in Bhopal. The actual fact was revealed by the Public Works Division or PWD minister Sajjan Singh Verma in response to former Madhya Pradesh minister and senior BJP legislator Narottam Mishra’s query over the expenditure on the renovation of bungalows allotted to cupboard ministers of the brand new Congress authorities within the meeting on Thursday. The best expenditure of over Rs 45 lakh was on the reconstruction, restore and facelift of Finance Minister Tarun Bhanot’s official bungalow within the upscale Char Imli locality. Subsequent, within the listing was Sajjan Singh Verma himself. A sum of over Rs 42.68 lakh was spent on the PWD minister’s bungalow positioned. At No. 3, was Chief Minister Kamal Nath, whose two bungalows within the Civil Strains space had been renovated with over Rs 33.eight lakh. “On the one hand, the federal government says that earlier authorities left the treasury empty, however then again, it spends crores of rupees to get ministers’ bungalows spruced up and renovated,” Narottam Mishra stated. Get Breaking news, reside protection, and Newest News from India and world wide on NDTV.com. Catch all of the Stay TV motion on NDTV 24×7 and NDTV India. Like us on Facebook or observe us on Twitter and Instagram for latest news and live news updates. (function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=213741912058651";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Source link

It is a great shame that Odisha ranked fourth in list of worst rate of child sexual abuse in India while the country stands second in world in the same category. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, Odisha secures fourth position in list of worst rate and crime numbers under POCSO with 6.8 per 1 lakh child population. A total of 10,854 cases of child rapes under section 376 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) were registered in the country during 2015, out of which Odisha ranked third with 1,052 cases. India has the world’s second largest number of sexually abused children. Total 2,562 cases were registered as crime against children during 2015, the NCRB report said. The disturbing picture of India and Odisha was revealed during World Vision India programme attended by Women & Child Development Minister Prafulla Samal on Saturday. Launching the World Vision India campaign titled “It takes Every Indian to End Child Sexual Abuse” that aims to end child sexual abuse and exploitation in Odisha, Samal said, “We should join hands to end child sexual abuse and exploitation for the wellbeing of children. It is our moral responsibility to educate our children on good and bad touch. There is a need to spread awareness on POCSO so that we strengthen child sexual abuse case reporting mechanisms.” To address the issue and to break the silence around child abuse and exploitation World Vision India has created a holistic campaign that is expected to impact 10 million children (0 – 18 years). “Violence against children is a serious violation of their rights. World Vision India’s campaign aims to make a significant contribution towards ending this abominable practice affecting our children today,” said Mikhael Pradhan, Head-Advocacy, World Vision India. “We aim to create a safer and more caring environment for India’s children. We believe that a world without violence against children is possible,” he said. The campaign will encourage the public to address values and attitudes, which condone sexual abuse and exploitation of children. World Vision India will also train parents on child protection, parenting and care at household level and within the community, facilitate school safety program, conduct comprehensive school safety measures for children, establish child protection policies and improve complaint mechanisms in schools. Sexual harassment awareness sessions will also be conducted at the anganwadi centres for adolescent girls. The campaign will also focus on strengthening existing child protection programs through multi-stakeholder engagement efforts that will include working with the Integrated Child Protection Scheme and child protection units to strengthen the reporting, referral mechanisms and support programs for child protection incidents, organizing inter-agency child protection review to ensure co-operation and accountability, sensitize and train police, teachers, doctors, Auxiliary nurse midwife, lawyers, etc. to be sensitive with children and their families when faced with a case. Additionally, it will work to strengthen coalitions of community, faith-based and civil society organizations to advocate for the protection of children and improve referral systems. The Odisha Sun Times Bureau : 19th. Nov,17

GREAT SHAME AS OUR STATE ODISHA RANKED 4TH. IN LIST OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN INDIA WHILE OUR COUNTRY INDIA RANKED 2ND. IN WORLD IN THE SAME CATEGORY : It is a great shame that Odisha ranked fourth in list of worst rate of child sexual abuse in India while the country stands second in world in the same category.

View: Relief package is peanuts. India needs to triple it

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View: Relief package is peanuts. India needs to triple it

Outrageously small. Crumbs from a miser’s table. Spineless obeisance to fiscal orthodoxy. Cowardly fears of foreigners reacting badly to a massive fiscal stimulus.

Forgive my censorious language in castigating the inadequacy of the government’s Rs 1.7 trillion relief package (0.8% of GDP) for those hit by the 21-day lockdown decreed to control the coronavirus. The government’s measures are mostly in the right direction but hugely inadequate. Many listed reliefs were already part of ongoing welfare measures, so the additional fiscal stimulus may be barely Rs 1 trillion, under 0.5% of GDP.

By contrast, the US has just enacted a relief package of $2 trillion, almost 10% of its GDP, over and above ongoing welfare spending. Relative to GDP, the US additional stimulus is 20 times India’s. Two former White House economic advisors, Glenn Hubbard and Austen Goolsbee, say the $ 2 trillion package is just a start for the needy, and this will definitely be followed by a second stimulus to lift the economy out of virus-induced recession. If that is another one trillion dollars, the total stimulus could be a whopping 15% of GDP.

The US relief package has been devised not by a socialist like Bernie Sanders but a right-wing President granting massive tax breaks to corporations. Trump personally thinks the virus threat is highly exaggerated and does not warrant locking down economic activity to check the virus’ spread. Yet even he accepts the need for a stimulus twice as large as in the 2008 Great Recession.

The 2008 and 2009 relief packages in the US aimed to save tottering banks and businesses, along with modest increases in food stamps and unemployment relief. But not even in 2008 did the US government send cheques to the needy. This time, it will send $1,200 to all individuals earning under $75,000. Married couples earning up to $150,000 will get $2,400, plus $500 per child. The relief is reduced for those earning up $99,000 and eliminated for higher-income persons.

The lesson for India is clear. At least triple the relief package and put more money into the bank accounts of the needy. If the problem continues for six to nine months, increase the relief package fivefold. Even a fivefold increase implies an additional stimulus of barely 5% of GDP, tiny compared to the US stimulus.

This will be utterly unorthodox economics, and fiscal purists will faint in horror. But this is not a conventional fiscal crisis. A medical crisis has forced governments across the world to impose lockdowns on economic activity, deliberately causing the great misery of recessions to check the virus’ spread and save millions of lives. When the government itself creates a recession — albeit for good medical reasons — it may reduce GDP by 3%. Its relief package should be at least the same size. Forget orthodox fiscal policy. India, like the US, must bust all fiscal records.

This mega stimulus should be financed entirely by RBI, just printing the money needed. Banks must not be asked to fund the rising fiscal deficit. They must focus their resources on entities hit by the recession. This mega-stimulus must be one-off. It should have a sunset clause, ending when the medical crisis does. It must not be confused with other programmes like PM-Kisan or a universal basic income. India has a fundamental problem of excessive government debt and needs to return to prudence once the virus dies out. The finance minister has proposed a miserly Rs 500 a month for three months into all Jan Dhan Accounts. Why not triple that instantly? The new US law provides $130 billion for hospitals testing millions of patients. An additional $150 billion will assist state and local governments dealing with the virus at the grassroots.

This holds lessons for India. A virus test costs Rs 4,500, over Rs 20,000 for most families. How many can afford this? Which states have enough money or staff? The Centre must massively assist both, ensuring that testing is nearfree, and that states can get more staff, equipment and medical supplies. Open free kitchens in schools, anganwadis and panchayat ghars without ID requirements to feed unemployed migrant workers.

Social distancing and lockdowns in India will not be as effective as in organised countries like Singapore. Millions in India have four or more people per room. Sheer crowding makes social distancing impossible. Virus control may be very flawed. Epidemiologist J Mulyil estimates that to develop “herd immunity”, 55% of Indians — 750 million people — need to get infected. Just 1% mortality among these means 7.5 million dead. Hopefully outcomes will be better. But this moral, medical and economic mega crisis requires a mega stimulus.

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Malnutrition, still a malaise in Karnataka

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Malnutrition, still a malaise in Karnataka

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Khaali is a word often read when gals of Koppal, Raichur and Ballari districts speak about their children. The word, which interprets to ‘nothingness’ or ‘empty’ in Kannada, is applied to explain an abortion or the demise of an infant. A majority of gals in this area have lived by way of this circumstance. They don’t forget to point out the deceased baby even throughout a relaxed speak about their maternal daily life, though it is invariably a discussion devoid of emotion.

Examine: Trouble in the courtyard

At the heart of most of these circumstances of abortion, maternal mortality or infant demise is Karnataka’s dark top secret: In some components of the point out, malnutrition is even worse than in sub-Saharan Africa.

Though forty five% of pregnant gals in the point out are anaemic, the figures are nevertheless high in the Hyderabad-Karnataka area, with Raichur topping the list at seventy three%. Pregnant gals with haemoglobin levels under eleven g/dl are regarded as anaemic. Normally, their children are born undernourished. 

Karnataka scores the worst in South India on various parameters associated to nourishment, reveals Countrywide Loved ones Health and fitness Survey 2016.

A 2018 report by the Centre for Plan Study, New Delhi, which compiled nation-extensive data, reveals that 26% of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) beneficiaries in the point out are malnourished. Inspite of better spending between 2015 and 2017, the point out ranks fourth in malnutrition levels, only guiding Maharashtra, Bihar and Assam, and is at par with Uttar Pradesh. ICDS, a central federal government programme launched in 1975, aims to deal with the nutritional and early-discovering requires of children underneath six several years, and pregnant and lactating gals. 

A stop by to the state’s rural areas clearly reveals that the nourishment interventions for gals and children underneath the ICDS have failed to make a constructive effects. Even even worse, the point out federal government is still to utilise the funds launched in the previous two several years underneath the Union government’s nourishment plan, Poshan Abhiyaan.

No believe in in strategies

“We have shed believe in in federal government strategies. Each individual other calendar year, a new programme is released and a big amount is allocated for the intent. Why are we foremost a miserable daily life even with so many nourishment programmes? Why do we have to commit sleepless evenings worrying about the high possibility of stillbirth, or providing birth to an undernourished newborn?” requested Muttamma, a social employee in Hospet taluk of Ballari.

She was married at eighteen. “I was 5 months pregnant when I arrived to know about my pregnancy,” she explained. Like many other gals in the locality, she was anaemic with a haemoglobin count of 7 in the 1st trimester. A handful of months right after the 1st baby birth, she was pregnant once again.

“My child was underweight and I knew I could not tolerate a complicated pregnancy once again. We opted for abortion. I wouldn’t have experienced to endure this circumstance experienced I identified about the reproductive cycle and if I experienced obtain to great food stuff as a teenager,” she explained. She nevertheless struggles to enhance the overall health of her two-and-a-50 %-calendar year-old child when dealing with her overall health issues. 

On an common, the haemoglobin levels of pregnant gals in North Karnataka districts range from 6 to nine g/dl, according to ASHA (Accredited Social Health and fitness Activist) employees.

Perpetual poverty has designed earning a single meal a working day a obstacle for many family members children, like elders, vacation resort to snuffing tobacco powder to satiate their starvation. 

Though the poor in Hyderabad-Karnataka districts battle malnutrition thanks to the absence of obtain to the right food stuff, the 1st findings of a pilot research by Azim Premji University in Anekal taluk in Bengaluru Urban district suggests that in urban areas, nutritional changeover and lifestyle adjustments have an adverse effects. As per federal government data, Bengaluru Urban ranks fifth in the classification of children with stunting and ninth in the classification of wasting.

8 several years right after the point out witnessed the demise of children thanks to malnourishment in Raichur district, which sooner or later led to the formation of Justice N K Patil  committee, the circumstance has not changed substantially.

“The high levels of malnutrition that persist in North Karnataka replicate the administrative apathy in direction of the circumstance,” explained Justice N K Patil, who headed the committee that submitted an exhaustive list of tips to the federal government in 2012, to conclusion malnutrition.

The State Division of Gals and Child Welfare report prepared in April 2019 reveals that Bidar is at the base of the nourishment chart with 30 out of a hundred children struggling from malnourishment, and Koppal follows intently with a malnutrition amount of 29.seventy one%. The quantity could be substantially a lot more as this data regarded as only ICDS beneficiaries.

Developmental delay

Koppal is also between the districts with high figures of specifically-abled individuals. “If we don’t deal with malnourishment straight away and effectively, it leads to developmental delay, which in convert outcomes in disabilities,” explained B Hampanna, assistant director of Samhuha, a nonprofit organisation that performs with specifically-abled children. 

Most of the federal government programmes could be noble in their intent but have a faulty design and poor implementation. Senior bureaucrats, who wished to continue to be nameless, explained that malnutrition is often misunderstood as starvation, even by lawmakers. Though satiating starvation is a limited-expression target, meeting the nourishment requires will go a extended way in shaping a healthy and prosperous potential for children.

“The nourishment strategies, be it the food stuff served at the anganwadis or foods to pregnant and lactating moms underneath the Mathru Poorna plan, give a uniform eating plan and absence wide range. A particular person in Kalaburagi would prefer to have jowar instead of rice. Policymakers really should create a personalised nourishment chart factoring in that certain region’s food stuff routines,” reasoned Dr Asha Benakappa, former director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health and fitness in Bengaluru.

She also expressed problem about various programmes not achieving the needy thanks to poor organizing, implementation and checking. “Our early-intervention programmes start out far too late,” she explained. 

Multiple problems

Malnourishment is not a linear problem. Though it has quite a few effects, various components add to malnourishment, Dr Padmini, a Bengaluru-based mostly nourishment pro, told DH. She described how the right nourishment throughout the 1st thousand times of the baby – from the working day of conception to the child’s second birthday – are very important for the baby to grow more healthy. She also pressured on the have to have for potential setting up of youngsters by producing consciousness about reproductive cycle and by delivering nutritious food stuff, good counselling and skill improvement. 

Nevertheless, youngsters in the Hyderabad-Karnataka area sense that they are a neglected great deal. “A calendar year back, the federal government applied to distribute provisions to us. All of a unexpected it was stopped. We were told that a selected amount will be credited to our account but nothing has occur by way of,” explained sisters Sunitha and Anitha in Ballari district. “And what does the federal government have for children like us who are compelled to do the job as migrant labourers in sugar cane fields?” they check with.

Raghavendra Bhat, regional coordinator, GOK-UNICEF Child Safety Job, Koppal feels that migration, early marriage and the change from subsistence farming to market place-pushed cultivation have aggravated the circumstance.

Very poor sanitation, absence of hygiene and unsafe ingesting drinking water are essential but neglected factors when tackling malnutrition. North Karnataka districts fare poorly in these parameters. Get the instance of P K Halli in Ballari district. Only 20 family members of the above 200 family members in village’s Dalit colony have obtain to bogs.

Water supplied to the village is visibly contaminated. “We filter thrice employing cloth prior to employing it for ingesting and cooking uses,” explained Rudramma, a resident.

Brownish sediment experienced shaped at the base of the vessel in which this ‘filtered’ drinking water was collected. She appreciates that this is a very clear lead to for the recurring diarrhoea between children in the village.

And 10 of the eleven anganwadis DH visited in this area didn’t have toilet services. Infrastructure services including learning aids were absent in most of these anganwadis.

In accordance to the division sources, a lot more than forty five% of the anganwadis in the point out don’t have their possess structures. 

Hemalatha P, secretary, Division of Gals and Child Development, explained, “We intend to assemble structures for anganwadis and enhance hygiene circumstances in convergence with other departments. The plan for adolescent girls, which addresses nourishment requires and skill improvement of the girls, will before long be carried out in entire vigour, in a meaningful way.”

The division also intends to improve the village bal vikas samiti and sanitation & nourishment committee to permit them to check the nourishment and sanitation programmes and to make sure no malpractice.

“There have been particular efforts to enhance the nourishment levels in the Hyderabad-Karnataka area. And the Comprehensive Countrywide Nourishment Survey data launched recently has demonstrated that we have enhanced when in contrast with the NHFS-4 data,” she explained.

Serious starvation

Nourishment pro and activist Dr Maya Mascarenhas, who was a member of the Justice NK Patil committee, feels that now the concentrate is on gathering data and not on motion. She adds, “In our efforts to enhance the ailment of severely malnourished children, we are neglecting reasonably malnourished kids who in convert slip into the hazard zone. Acceptable treatment for equally these groups is essential to realize the nourishment target,” she explained.

“You have to have to see the serious starvation in these components of the point out to consider it,” explained Bhagya a social employee from Hospet who specialises in gals empowerment.

“If individuals have obtain to a wide range of grains and pulses by way of the general public distribution technique, even if it will come at an very affordable price, that would aid enhance nourishment. They now get only polished rice and a kg of tur dal,” Sharada Gopal, who performs in the villages of Dharwad and Belagavi districts, explained.

In a constructive move, some of the organisations are marketing the concept of kitchen backyard garden as a way to enhance the nourishment levels of the family members. “While it is essential we give particular consideration to the most vulnerable, we will not be capable to crack the cycle of malnutrition until we deal with the problem holistically,” explained Bhagya. 

Nourishment is central to acquiring sustainable improvement plans (SDG), and it is rightly described in SDG2, which aims to “end starvation, realize food stuff protection and enhanced nourishment, and advertise sustainable agriculture.”

“Nutrition plays a transformational role in our nation in improving overall health and ending poverty. Teach individuals fishing instead of providing them fish,” explained B L Patil, an advocate and social activist in Belagavi.

He is nevertheless waiting around for the last verdict on the writ petition he experienced submitted in the High Court docket in 2012 on nourishment, based mostly on which Justice N K Patil committee was shaped.

A holistic technique that facilitates formulation of area-unique, neighborhood-centred and tailor-designed intervention will aid family members, not just persons, realize nourishment sufficiency.

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