लेखक: डॉ अर्जुन कुमार, प्रो. मनीष प्रियदर्शी, डॉ सिमी मेहता, प्रो. बलवंत सिंह मेहता, प्रो. आईसी अवस्थी, प्रो. सौम्यदीप चट्टोपाध्याय, प्रो. शिप्रा मैत्रा, डॉ. इंदु प्रकाश सिंह, राज कुमार, रितिका गुप्ता, अंशुला मेहता, डॉ कहकशां कमाल, बैकुंठ रॉय, डॉ डॉली पाल, पूजा कुमारी
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कोरोनोवायरस रोग (COVID-19) दुनिया भर में एक महामारी के रूप में फैल रहा है, जो दुनिया को आघात पहुंचा रहा है। विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) और रोग नियंत्रण एवं रोकथाम केंद्र (सीडीसी), के अनुसार बुजुर्ग व्यक्तियों और खासकर पहले...
By Dr Arjun Kumar, Dr Simi Mehta, Prof Balwant Singh Mehta
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread across the world emerging as a pandemic, traumatizing the globe. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control...
Arjun Kumar, Balwant Singh Mehta, Simi Mehta
In the run-up to the announcement of the nationwide lockdown on March 24th, 2020, the government failed to craft strategies to address possible fallout in several areas. One such area that went unaddressed...
India’s urban poor lacked decent access to safe water before hand washing became a matter of life and death.
The ongoing lockdown due to the pandemic crisis has compounded the challenges for the workers in the informal sector. This article provides evidence from the official data sources like the Periodic Labour Force Survey on the estimates of informal workers put of employment. It estimates the number of most vulnerable informal workers in urban areas by three ways (i) the most affected sectors; (ii) status of work and (iii) vulnerable occupations, where they are engaged in urban areas.
Manish Priyadarshi, Simi Mehta, Balwant Singh Mehta, S Jayaprakash, Dolly Pal, Bharathy, Navneet Manchanda, Ritika Gupta, Anshula Mehta, Arjun Kumar
Introduction
Human health is a prerequisite for the economic health of any country. Unless the population is healthy, the economy of...
Simi Mehta, Balwant Singh Mehta, Arjun Kumar
In the run-up to the announcement of nationwide lockdown starting 00:00 hours of 25 March 2020, there were several areas where the government failed to craft a strategy to address the possible fallouts....
Simi Mehta, Balwant Mehta and Arjun Kumar
If the sight and plight of the parent walking with his ten-month old infant on his shoulders for over 100 kilometers does not shake you from the comfort of your lockdown, one can...
Simi Mehta, Balwant Mehta, Arjun Kumar
Amid the prevailing lockdown, the afflictions of migrant labourers are being compounded during their long trek home and some are being beaten up and tortured by police
If the pitiful sight of a father walking...
Simi Mehta, Balwant Mehta, Arjun Kumar
Background
The worldwide spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)is severely affecting the global economy and as per the recent updates almost one-third to half of the global population are now under some form of a...
