The Covid-19 pandemic hit students particularly hard, denying them the benefits of collaborative learning, physical schools and now, the cloud over Board examinations. ThePrint’s #ClassInterrupted series captures students’ anxieties and their predominant concern: ‘what next?’ Ad hoc, knee-jerk decisions are hurting. The battle against the pandemic should prioritise students’ future.
Decline in vaccinations can’t be blamed on new restrictions. India needs urgent strategy
The declining trend of vaccination over the last week is disturbing, just when it should be picking up. The daily average last week was just 30 lakhs. This sluggishness can’t just be blamed on new restrictions and overworked hospitals. India needs a new vaccination strategy and a sense of urgency.
India’s cooperative federalism failing in Covid crisis — just when it’s most needed
From oxygen, drugs to vaccines, India is failing just when cooperative federalism was imperative. A minister tells states to control oxygen demand and a state seeks to import Remdesivir from Bangladesh. The NDMA and Epidemic Act were invoked last year to improve Centre-state coordination, not to spark free-for-all name calling.
India should be doing one crore jabs daily. With the young too getting infected, all adults should qualify.
Any hope / prospect of cooperative federalism died in February 2015, when AAP won 67 out of 70 seats. If LG is the government of Delhi, like a nuclear submarine on a deterrence patrol, he has been neither seen nor heard over the last one year of pandemic. A politics in which there is no space for the Opposition is not serving India well. Read General V P Malik’s anguished tweet. Nor is governance incandescent.