Karthik Seshan

Transforming lives in the Covid-19 context: MGNREGS and its potential

India can use its flagship public employment program (MGNREGS) to transform lives of its underprivileged population in the Covid-19 context, and live up to its promise of a welfare state.

Ayan Biswas

Posted on 05 May, 2020 04:11 PM

As India continues to unravel the actual scale of economic impacts in a world infested by the dangerous Covid-19 virus, lingering images of daily wage labourers and migrant workers attempting a near impossible walk home have been etched in public consciousness.

Women working on an NREGA site building a pond to assist in farming and water storage. Gopalpura, Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh (Image: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh, Flickr Commons)

Covid-19 and water security in India: Magnifying inequities in an unequal world

The "heal as one" narrative is a false one as the poorest are the most vulnerable to the disease.

Posted on 25 Apr, 2020 01:44 PM

In the absence of piped water access, poor households will find it exceedingly difficult to practice regular handwashing (Image: UNICEF, Flickr Commons)

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