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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.  

Parliamentary panel flags under-utilisation of funds given in pandemic

Look into infrastructural or procedural constraints, it tells Labour Ministry The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour has raised concerns over the Labour and Employment Ministry missing physical targets for schemes and asked the Ministry to look into why it was unable to use funds allocated to it, particularly during the pandemic, in an optimal way. In its report on the demand for grants for 2021-2022 that was presented in Parliament on Tuesday, the panel said: “The Committee also desires that the Ministry seriously look into the infrastructural or procedural constraints impeding optimal utilisation of funds especially made available during the pandemic (sic).”

Parl panel raps labour ministry for non-optimal use of funds | India News

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel has asked the labour ministry to look into the reasons for not being able to ensure optimal utilisation of funds made available during the coronavirus-induced pandemic. The report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour on the Demands for Grants for 2021-22 was tabled in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The panel said though the ministry’s expenditure for the current fiscal was bumped up on account of the newly-launched Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY), the government could only spend about 52.8% of the funds till February 15. The report also said two new schemes, the PMGKY and Aatmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana (ABRY) were launched with the intention to cater to the needs of people during the pandemic and emphasised that the ministry must make “accurate budgetary estimates” before seeking supplementary allocations.

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