In the kind of lockdown extension PM Modi has announced, the costs outweigh the benefits. And it could claim many more lives over time. Government must assure food and security.
The act of feeding is a conscience cleaner, a hand wash that also kills hopes of the poor wanting anything more than food. These are old models of charity.
Despite the depreciation of the rupee, India continues to be a magnet — safer than peers like Turkey, South Africa or Brazil, and offers greater returns than the US or Europe.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
Total cases till now: 2.1 million
Total deaths till now: 137 k
Death % 6.48….provided no one lose his life from remaining 1.4 million active cases.
Actual death % based closed cases 20.54. (Average based actual data).
MR yadav using 4%…..Isn’t it tells the story that either he is not honest or not capable doing basic analysis. And publishing (by MR. Yadav) such baseless analysis without assessing the kind of chaos this will create is nothing but insane.
Taking US as base number for spreading Chaos……doesn’t he know the role and differences in the demography?
Just few question to MR. Yadav….
A) what was the formula when we lost 15 million people in 2018 (Spanish flu 2018)? Specifically when our population was merely 31 crore. And
B) why we lost more 30% (15 millions out of 50 million) of the total loss across the world.
C) now we have 130 million …which means not only more population but because of density more vulnerable.
So, if you are not capable of understanding even basic numbers then stop all this nonsense and apologise to the world for misguiding and creation chaos. And if you are doing this because of your hate then god bless you…I can just term this shameless.
This view from a number cruncher is disappointing.
Covid rises exponentially and in a short time will lead to high deaths, higher infection and unimaginable stress for a longer period of time not sure till when.
Prevention is prerequisite now and this can be achieved through lockdown at the momen.
With this in mind PDS has to be made accessible without chaos. In absence of centralized PDS onus would be on state government.
Essential services can start in phased manner with different shift patterns and maintaining social distancing.
Some kind of odd even phased movement, commercial activity keeping prevention and spread in mind.
I still believe Indian Covid cases are underreported unlike US and European countries. So we are still at huge risk.
If we apply this logic, why have lockdown at all? Even if we stretch our imagination and assume USA type spread, the loss of lives could not have crossed 50000. This number is not even one per cent of our total population. But this is a twisted logic. Death of 50000 persons is not a small thing, it would cause a havoc even in India. While this loss is almost a certainty had the pandemic been allowed run amok freely, the calculation of loss of life due standstill economy is just a speculation. Let us take the case of stranded migrant workers. How many of them have died so far due to hunger? Is there any reliable statistics? What is the extent of prevalence of corona amongst this migrant workers: Presumably, very negligible that can be taken care of in big cities such as Mumbai and Delhi. But what if this microscopic percentage goes to rural areas in North India in packed trains with no possibility of social distancing and this triggers community transmission there? It could be serious calamity that can create havoc in rural U.P. and rural Bihar, which simply doesn’t have medical infrastructure to deal with such type of calamity. The plight of these workers is understandable. But as of now there is no option but to keep them where they are.
Can’t imagine a populist leader would naively cause this kind of suffering to it’s own people. Clearly shows that Modi does not possess the education or common sense to have single mindedly pursued such a disastrous course of action.
So make it your agenda that their should be COMPULSORY AND LEGALLY BINDING POPULATION CONTROL. To avoid such distress in future . OR STOP YOUR NAUTANKI .
Lockdown is going to be a man made disaster. It is the duty of the Govt to ensure safety and security of the poor and needy. If it fails to do so, then compensation must be paid.
Someone please file a PIL seeking compensation to the victims or families of the deceased due to lockdown. Due to such lockdown the rich and privileged will be saved from COVID-19 but the poor and underprivileged migrant workers are dying out of hunger and lack of other necessities. This is a clear discrimination by the Govt.
At the outset Yadav writes he is against lockdown-2, and then compares the scenario with the Europe and the USA. For a person as intelligent and we hope well read, did he deliberately ignore the population density and size when he blithely makes the comparisions? From conservative estimates by many experts, about 20% of the population will get infected should the virus be given a free passage. And about 4 to 5% of these can be fatal. This translates to more than 100lak deaths.
So being as irresponsible as always Mr.Yadav spins a tale using his not inconsiderable imagination, assuming imaginary figures and more imaginative calculations to arrive at figures which reflects his pessimistic position.
Agree with you. One addition. Given the free passage of virus not locking down or social distancing, and also given our medical infrastructure, the fatality in affected population could be as high as 10%, like Italy and Spain has seen. If 26 crore of people are affected, 10% of them is 2.6 crores (26 miiion for some who understand that way). People can survive with one time meal a day for many days. Economy can be revived, over the course of time. But a family member once lost, it is lost forever. And there are so many families where if their dependent member is gone, no package of economic revival will help. Life is important than livelihood in the first place and livelihood is also important to sustain life. People having one eyed vision of only economy will never realize the importance of human life.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write “”feed the poor migrants”” as if we need Yogendar Yadav to feed us this cliches and pretend as if only he has a conscience and intelligence! Does writing this navel gazing tripe actually help even a SINGLE person get fed or sheltered ? This author is just another obstacle that is hindering the proper conduct of the lockdown and India’s fight against coronavirus – a fight to save potentially millions of Indian lives.
The nonsensical whining and laments of the obvious fail to realise the simple truth that – the entire world is in the SAME situation – one of dwindling wages, hungry poor and suffering. THUS the disaster / pandemic classification!
The oxymoronic idea that India should have “”planned better”” for a lockdown is the whining of demented people detached from reality as if countries were forewarned about the pandemic (which they weren’t – the WHO continuously refused to recommend the ban of foreign travel or even wearing masks !) because nations would plan NOT TO HAVE to enforce a lockdown – because nobody wants a lockdown! The idea that a “”lockdown could have been better planned”” is the refrain of the imbeciles who fail to realize that the lockdown itself is an emergency response due to a sudden danger – not a “”planned approach””.
Further, NO NATION on earth can be said to have been “”ready”” or dealing with the Covid situation with full preparation – even small rich nations like Singapore, Hong Kong etc have struggled! Now, expecting a vast nation the size of India – the world’s largest single market, the world’s largest labor market and one of the world’s biggest agricultural nations to implement the lockdown of 1.3 billion people without pain and problems is the height of self-indulgent navel gazing and petulant whining.
If anything we must take heart that despite such a great and calamitous event like a national lockdown for nearly 5 weeks – our nations is blessed with mechanisms, political leadership and a feeling of national purpose by the citizenry to so willingly sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Things are not easy – but then that’s why this is a national crisis. And no amount of back seat drivers and armchair PMs /CMs can understand the complexities and fine balance of governance.
Armchair clowns like Yogender Yadav should put his money where his mouth is and DO SOMETHING – we don’t need words, we need deeds. So Shut up and DO somthing instead of whining!
Helo !!! little planning could have helped, knowing the magnitude of problem China our neighbouring country was going through. Arrangements for migrant workers to be sent back to their respective village, help for the poor ,hospitals and infrastructure revamped care for proffessionals
Should have been the focus on the part of the Government Wise decisions is required otherwise the poor of our country will curse and die.
The second last Para of yours reminded me of Modi’s regular 8PM Show. People are following the lockdown not for some greater purpose but simply to save their asses. Most wealthy and even middle class have sacrificed nothing so farin real terms, in fact they are enjoying extended 4g internet subscription just like you. You don’t know anything about sacrifice Mazo. Foresight is what a leader must have. And Feku has anything but that. It’s the same way you proud men were barking during 50 days of NoteBandi. Ek patta to hila nahi or accha khasa economy ka satyanas kr diye haan UP election zordar jite. Even pappu called for the lock down on 12 th March. And given the exponential nature, had it happened, we would have figures still in 3 digits. 30 jan was the day of the first positive case identification in india. By then many developed countries had already started suffering. So the word “planning” is not something inapt. Any one would have done the same thing what Feku did, wouldn’t they? Similarly, it’s very easy to re-asses and judge the past (something you bhakts do on regular basis “Nehru”). But we need someone who can see what the future holds and act judiciously. Doing it earlier than most countries could have been called political leadership, not monkeying others.
Online poll in Business Standard. Will the lockdown extension help bring down the number of new Covid 19 cases in the country ? Can’t say – 0.11%. Yes – 1.28%. No – 98.61%.
Let us not forget, all Chief Ministers, irrespective of their political affiliation, demanded extension of the lockdown. Many of them had already declared the extension in their respective states, even before Modi decided to extend the lockdown for the country as a whole.
Few intellectual readers of Business Standard cannot decide what a country leader should in crisis. If that would have been the case, it is just disastrous. The decision has to be collective and in this cases it was a collective decision of elected representatives of each state and with the central leadership providing guidance. For the fist time in India after many long years, political parties with different ideologies fights the cause unitedly, The only opposition could be from those parties who are defunct both in centre and state levels.
The Business Standard” name itself says the results of the polls, in whose favour will it go.
Total cases till now: 2.1 million
Total deaths till now: 137 k
Death % 6.48….provided no one lose his life from remaining 1.4 million active cases.
Actual death % based closed cases 20.54. (Average based actual data).
MR yadav using 4%…..Isn’t it tells the story that either he is not honest or not capable doing basic analysis. And publishing (by MR. Yadav) such baseless analysis without assessing the kind of chaos this will create is nothing but insane.
Taking US as base number for spreading Chaos……doesn’t he know the role and differences in the demography?
Just few question to MR. Yadav….
A) what was the formula when we lost 15 million people in 2018 (Spanish flu 2018)? Specifically when our population was merely 31 crore. And
B) why we lost more 30% (15 millions out of 50 million) of the total loss across the world.
C) now we have 130 million …which means not only more population but because of density more vulnerable.
So, if you are not capable of understanding even basic numbers then stop all this nonsense and apologise to the world for misguiding and creation chaos. And if you are doing this because of your hate then god bless you…I can just term this shameless.
This view from a number cruncher is disappointing.
Covid rises exponentially and in a short time will lead to high deaths, higher infection and unimaginable stress for a longer period of time not sure till when.
Prevention is prerequisite now and this can be achieved through lockdown at the momen.
With this in mind PDS has to be made accessible without chaos. In absence of centralized PDS onus would be on state government.
Essential services can start in phased manner with different shift patterns and maintaining social distancing.
Some kind of odd even phased movement, commercial activity keeping prevention and spread in mind.
I still believe Indian Covid cases are underreported unlike US and European countries. So we are still at huge risk.
If we apply this logic, why have lockdown at all? Even if we stretch our imagination and assume USA type spread, the loss of lives could not have crossed 50000. This number is not even one per cent of our total population. But this is a twisted logic. Death of 50000 persons is not a small thing, it would cause a havoc even in India. While this loss is almost a certainty had the pandemic been allowed run amok freely, the calculation of loss of life due standstill economy is just a speculation. Let us take the case of stranded migrant workers. How many of them have died so far due to hunger? Is there any reliable statistics? What is the extent of prevalence of corona amongst this migrant workers: Presumably, very negligible that can be taken care of in big cities such as Mumbai and Delhi. But what if this microscopic percentage goes to rural areas in North India in packed trains with no possibility of social distancing and this triggers community transmission there? It could be serious calamity that can create havoc in rural U.P. and rural Bihar, which simply doesn’t have medical infrastructure to deal with such type of calamity. The plight of these workers is understandable. But as of now there is no option but to keep them where they are.
Can’t imagine a populist leader would naively cause this kind of suffering to it’s own people. Clearly shows that Modi does not possess the education or common sense to have single mindedly pursued such a disastrous course of action.
Yogendra Yadav should leave politics and start future telling business as he seems to know every thing that have yet to occur.
Is there a compulsion that you should write on every topic, even if you are not suitable for the same?
He is a Modi haters and go upto any extent to criticise him, using his little knowledge.
Have you applied your theory to yourself Mr Pankaj?
Good argument by Mr Yadav, as always.
Excellent professional write up. Urgent need to make wheels of economy move albeit at slow pace . Nation First .
“Can”…. “Could.
Opinion, not fact.
So make it your agenda that their should be COMPULSORY AND LEGALLY BINDING POPULATION CONTROL. To avoid such distress in future . OR STOP YOUR NAUTANKI .
Lockdown is going to be a man made disaster. It is the duty of the Govt to ensure safety and security of the poor and needy. If it fails to do so, then compensation must be paid.
Someone please file a PIL seeking compensation to the victims or families of the deceased due to lockdown. Due to such lockdown the rich and privileged will be saved from COVID-19 but the poor and underprivileged migrant workers are dying out of hunger and lack of other necessities. This is a clear discrimination by the Govt.
At the outset Yadav writes he is against lockdown-2, and then compares the scenario with the Europe and the USA. For a person as intelligent and we hope well read, did he deliberately ignore the population density and size when he blithely makes the comparisions? From conservative estimates by many experts, about 20% of the population will get infected should the virus be given a free passage. And about 4 to 5% of these can be fatal. This translates to more than 100lak deaths.
So being as irresponsible as always Mr.Yadav spins a tale using his not inconsiderable imagination, assuming imaginary figures and more imaginative calculations to arrive at figures which reflects his pessimistic position.
Agree with you. One addition. Given the free passage of virus not locking down or social distancing, and also given our medical infrastructure, the fatality in affected population could be as high as 10%, like Italy and Spain has seen. If 26 crore of people are affected, 10% of them is 2.6 crores (26 miiion for some who understand that way). People can survive with one time meal a day for many days. Economy can be revived, over the course of time. But a family member once lost, it is lost forever. And there are so many families where if their dependent member is gone, no package of economic revival will help. Life is important than livelihood in the first place and livelihood is also important to sustain life. People having one eyed vision of only economy will never realize the importance of human life.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write “”feed the poor migrants”” as if we need Yogendar Yadav to feed us this cliches and pretend as if only he has a conscience and intelligence! Does writing this navel gazing tripe actually help even a SINGLE person get fed or sheltered ? This author is just another obstacle that is hindering the proper conduct of the lockdown and India’s fight against coronavirus – a fight to save potentially millions of Indian lives.
The nonsensical whining and laments of the obvious fail to realise the simple truth that – the entire world is in the SAME situation – one of dwindling wages, hungry poor and suffering. THUS the disaster / pandemic classification!
The oxymoronic idea that India should have “”planned better”” for a lockdown is the whining of demented people detached from reality as if countries were forewarned about the pandemic (which they weren’t – the WHO continuously refused to recommend the ban of foreign travel or even wearing masks !) because nations would plan NOT TO HAVE to enforce a lockdown – because nobody wants a lockdown! The idea that a “”lockdown could have been better planned”” is the refrain of the imbeciles who fail to realize that the lockdown itself is an emergency response due to a sudden danger – not a “”planned approach””.
Further, NO NATION on earth can be said to have been “”ready”” or dealing with the Covid situation with full preparation – even small rich nations like Singapore, Hong Kong etc have struggled! Now, expecting a vast nation the size of India – the world’s largest single market, the world’s largest labor market and one of the world’s biggest agricultural nations to implement the lockdown of 1.3 billion people without pain and problems is the height of self-indulgent navel gazing and petulant whining.
If anything we must take heart that despite such a great and calamitous event like a national lockdown for nearly 5 weeks – our nations is blessed with mechanisms, political leadership and a feeling of national purpose by the citizenry to so willingly sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Things are not easy – but then that’s why this is a national crisis. And no amount of back seat drivers and armchair PMs /CMs can understand the complexities and fine balance of governance.
Armchair clowns like Yogender Yadav should put his money where his mouth is and DO SOMETHING – we don’t need words, we need deeds. So Shut up and DO somthing instead of whining!
Helo !!! little planning could have helped, knowing the magnitude of problem China our neighbouring country was going through. Arrangements for migrant workers to be sent back to their respective village, help for the poor ,hospitals and infrastructure revamped care for proffessionals
Should have been the focus on the part of the Government Wise decisions is required otherwise the poor of our country will curse and die.
The second last Para of yours reminded me of Modi’s regular 8PM Show. People are following the lockdown not for some greater purpose but simply to save their asses. Most wealthy and even middle class have sacrificed nothing so farin real terms, in fact they are enjoying extended 4g internet subscription just like you. You don’t know anything about sacrifice Mazo. Foresight is what a leader must have. And Feku has anything but that. It’s the same way you proud men were barking during 50 days of NoteBandi. Ek patta to hila nahi or accha khasa economy ka satyanas kr diye haan UP election zordar jite. Even pappu called for the lock down on 12 th March. And given the exponential nature, had it happened, we would have figures still in 3 digits. 30 jan was the day of the first positive case identification in india. By then many developed countries had already started suffering. So the word “planning” is not something inapt. Any one would have done the same thing what Feku did, wouldn’t they? Similarly, it’s very easy to re-asses and judge the past (something you bhakts do on regular basis “Nehru”). But we need someone who can see what the future holds and act judiciously. Doing it earlier than most countries could have been called political leadership, not monkeying others.
Online poll in Business Standard. Will the lockdown extension help bring down the number of new Covid 19 cases in the country ? Can’t say – 0.11%. Yes – 1.28%. No – 98.61%.
Let us not forget, all Chief Ministers, irrespective of their political affiliation, demanded extension of the lockdown. Many of them had already declared the extension in their respective states, even before Modi decided to extend the lockdown for the country as a whole.
Few intellectual readers of Business Standard cannot decide what a country leader should in crisis. If that would have been the case, it is just disastrous. The decision has to be collective and in this cases it was a collective decision of elected representatives of each state and with the central leadership providing guidance. For the fist time in India after many long years, political parties with different ideologies fights the cause unitedly, The only opposition could be from those parties who are defunct both in centre and state levels.
The Business Standard” name itself says the results of the polls, in whose favour will it go.