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COVID-19: Examining the Impact of Lockdown in India after One Year

COVID-19: Examining the Impact of Lockdown in India after One Year One year after its announcement in March 2020, the consequences of India’s strict COVID-19 lockdown measures and ineffective policy responses continue to be felt, be it in terms of livelihood loss and economic downturn or increased marginalisation of vulnerable sections of society. On 24 March 2020, with approximately 500 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 reported in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the country and declared a nationwide lockdown. He announced that “a total ban is being imposed on people, from stepping out of their homes for a period of 21 days.” The lockdown, which would be in operation from the midnight of 24–25 March, was announced with only four hours’ notice.  

75,000 saplings to be raised at Vengatachalapuram

75,000 saplings to be raised at Vengatachalapuram Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Collector S. Divyadharshini on Monday began a drive to plant 75,000 saplings under Miyawaki technique at Venkatachalapuram near Lalgudi under the urban forestry initiative. It would come up on 6 acres of land owned by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment. While the workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme will plant the saplings, volunteers and environmentalists will bear the cost of about ₹5 lakh for raising the saplings. The drive will be completed within four days. S. Vaidhyanathan, Revenue Divisional Officer, Lalgudi, said that drip irrigation would be used to raise the forest, which was aimed at the local people to enjoy the benefits of forest in their locality. The Venkatachalapuram panchayat would maintain the Miyawaki forest.

Ranjith R Panathur: From watchman to IIM professor

A Facebook post that begins by declaring “This is where I was born and grew up” has taken Kerala by storm with ministers and Opposition leaders joining ordinary netizens in congratulating the writer. The picture accompanying the post shows a two-room shed built with stone and mud, its presumably leaky tiled roof covered with black plastic sheets, in a small village in north Kerala’s Kasaragod district. It’s from here that the writer, Ranjith R. Panathur, 28, rose to become a university lecturer in Bangalore working as a night-watchman to fund his college studies and a soon-to-be economics teacher at IIM Ranchi.

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