If developing world wants to avoid lockdowns later, it will have to resist urge to reopen fully now — whether you’re thinking in terms of lives or livelihoods.
If vaccine delivery mechanism can be evolved in India, other developing countries can replicate it. Without one, they can’t escape pandemic even with vaccine.
The replacement of a US-centric global economy with a China-centric one spells trouble for the trend of global development that has prevailed for the past three decades.
There's no demand-supply gap, only poor allocation choices. The wealthy will have access to water, and the poor will pay more for water of questionable quality.
Each country has its own challenges and development agencies should consider variations in income, health, education and development while classifying them as developed or developing.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
It was known from the very beginning that there is no immediate cure for Covid 19 other than preventive measures like mask, social distancing, immunity boosters etc. Vaccine was expected to be available only after Q1 2021 but repurpose drugs were experimented with varying degrees of success. In this background, it made a good sense to have a total lockdown of 3 to 4 weeks, beef up the medical infrastructure and then have a controlled unlocking over a period of time. It was very important to make people responsible for their behavior and it should have been made clear that state can support only in extreme cases given the state of medical infra.
Instead, we had total lockdown, police and administration making money using lockdown rules to allow movement of people and trucks, hardly much improvement could be noticed in medical infra but funds were wasted (but right pockets filled) in building up quarantine centers. Thus, the situation was exploited at the ground level by usual suspects to enrich themselves with fussade of emotional show of appreciation to doctors and medical staff who really toiled ( and in many cases, got not paid on time as well!).
Modi did manage well in first 4 weeks but thereafter, he lost the track and by now, he is hands off it. Like demonetization, the original decision was fine but subsequent follow up events were not managed well or at least as expected from a leader like Modi and BJP.
It was known from the very beginning that there is no immediate cure for Covid 19 other than preventive measures like mask, social distancing, immunity boosters etc. Vaccine was expected to be available only after Q1 2021 but repurpose drugs were experimented with varying degrees of success. In this background, it made a good sense to have a total lockdown of 3 to 4 weeks, beef up the medical infrastructure and then have a controlled unlocking over a period of time. It was very important to make people responsible for their behavior and it should have been made clear that state can support only in extreme cases given the state of medical infra.
Instead, we had total lockdown, police and administration making money using lockdown rules to allow movement of people and trucks, hardly much improvement could be noticed in medical infra but funds were wasted (but right pockets filled) in building up quarantine centers. Thus, the situation was exploited at the ground level by usual suspects to enrich themselves with fussade of emotional show of appreciation to doctors and medical staff who really toiled ( and in many cases, got not paid on time as well!).
Modi did manage well in first 4 weeks but thereafter, he lost the track and by now, he is hands off it. Like demonetization, the original decision was fine but subsequent follow up events were not managed well or at least as expected from a leader like Modi and BJP.
May God be kind to India in winter months!!