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The Migrants Without Food, Money and Medical Aid in Lockdown Didn't Ask For More… Still The inhuman Hinduvadi Bhagats always hailing Jai Sri Ram have no qualms of shame when they scoff at these shutdown miserables. Factories are shut down after the whole country is locked down.  Thus lockdown displaced lakhs of migrant labours, to be specific 20 lakh in number if Nitin Gadkari's data is to be trusted. I am very sorry to register here my strong objection to insensitive Bhagat's inhuman satircal comments on their plight. Not wrong to draw that these set of malcontent bhagats get encouraged to scoff at the hapless due to  mute response of the government craftily avoiding or may be postponing to help the migrant destitutes with money so as these to be doled out just before assembly elections - yes for buying votes. The whole world media and intellectuals are laughing at India. Simple logic -- had there been election on hand, the very government wouldn't have sit so ...

The last full one week of the lockdown 3.0 were marked by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcements on the fiscal stimulus package. While she gave away details of the package after the markets closed, the Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) Nifty crashed over 1% every time she announced new set of details. Why are the stock markets disappointed with the stimulus package? Probably many, including top economists don’t think of it as a stimulus. “I am not sure whether I can call these stimuli", Nitin Gadkari said in his interview to CNBC TV18. Govinda Rao, member 14th Finance Commission said "More than Rs 5 lakh crore are pending dues of MSMEs. If only they clear those dues it will be a great stimulus!" In all, the Centre has rolled out the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package -- the idea of which was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with much fanfare. While this comprises 10% of the GDP, as committed by the government, how much is this act...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday announced a slew of measures for migrant workers and street vendors; however, how effectively these steps will help the undocumented section can not be determined yet. FM Sitharaman introduced ‘one nation one ration card’ to enable migrant workers from any depot in the country on the same ration card, issued in any state. The workers’ family members’ Aadhar details will be seeded into the ration card, using technology and database. The government also decided to convert the government-funded housing in major cities to affordable rental housing complexes for urban poor migrants. Besides, the government has allowed the state government to use the disaster response fund to arrange food and shelter for the migrant workers, which will incur a cost of Rs 11,000 crore to the centre . Considering the nationwide lockdown has caused the street vendors to earn a zero income, the government has announced a special credit facility of Rs 5,000 crore...

Yesterday late evening, on 12th May, our PM Modi announced new corona crisis economic package for the year 2020 worth Rs 20 lakh crore, i.e., almost about 10% of India's GDP. According to him economic gains India had so far would now enable her to spend 10% of GDP to lead India further to the path of self reliance. The PM also appreciated the will power and self confidence of the people in the moment of crisis situation of pandemic. How he saw will power and confidence in daily wage migrant labourers is of anybody's guess. He said that details of the new package will be announced by FM Nirmala Sitharaman in the coming next few days starting today the 13th May. In the absence of package details  1. We can atleast draw a list of percentages of GDP offered to their respective citizens by other countries as relief packages. 2. We must analyse the figure 10 % which, in itself, seems to be an impressive share of India's GDP going to be spend but in reality the new p...

The nation is witnessing a painful degradation in Indian social media. It seems most of Indian media houses are also existing, as if, to run and promote government agenda of one sided hate campaigns and blame charges without fact verifications. Taking a bit further we see on the other hand the level of sensibility in reporting is gravely lacking and raising issues with plausible facts and logic which no TV channel has so far countered to prove lie manufacturing channels. Just a few examples... When the whole media was condemning Shaheen Bagh gathering and it's agitation as communal outcry to arm twist the government to take back CAA, people like us stood firm by hilts to define the agitation a sit-in peaceful protest, led by women. In India the Constitution allows its citizens the right to protest peaceful. When the majority media with government's dog collar around its neck were busy to misguide the nation with communal colour and howling at the entire muslim community ...

Who is responsible for the confusion, desperation, insecurity among the labourers? It has been the unpreparedness of the government while announcing lockdown. This government has always been in a tearing hurry as it has the history of taking decisions and making announcements without doing proper homework. Already the lockdown was announced late as the bloody government was busy with Assembly election, Trump visit, Hindu Muslim hate campaigns, horse trading in MP assembly. The lockdown could have been delayed (which was already much delayed)  by another 4 to 5 days or 6 days for arranging easy passage of labourers to their home towns as compared to what the government is doing now after over 45 days of self curfew and shutdown. The labourers waited more than one and a half months and lost patience due to no money, no food, no bus and no trains. What an irresponsible level of confusion created even at the government level to choose the mode of transport -- bus or train. First it wa...