Why Shivraj Singh Chouhan is offering social sector schemes as a post-Covid-19 palliative From state support for Covid-19 orphans to free food and government jobs for the next of kin of Covid victims, the government hopes its schemes could blunt the anger against it for being caught unawares by the second wave advertisement CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan during a virtual meeting in Bhopal on May 29, 2021 As Covid cases decline in numbers, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has begun to focus on a post-Covid response by his government. He proposes to implement a series of welfare measures that will not only ease the suffering of those affected by Covid but also hopefully blunt the anger against the government’s failure to anticipate the second wave.