COVID-19
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Letter to Special Secretary, CM Office: Request to Get Ration Cards Made for 7 Families in District Barabanki
Following residents of Gram Sabha Aseni, Block Banki, Tehsil Nawabganj, Dist. Barabanki have applied online to get their ration cards made. However, their documents are not being submitted at the tehsil and after a priod of one month has lapsed they will be required to make their online application again.
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Letter to UP MIS Officer: Issue of Job Cards and Work
Attached are two lists from the Sitapur district: New job card Contains the families from the districts of Sitapur for whom new job cards are to be issued. State aid: For people with job cards, assistance to be provided by the state in terms of jobs and financial aid. Also, few people who did not…
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Letter to the DM, Sitapur: Issue of Ration cards
Kindly get ration cards made for families who don’t have one so that they can benefit from the Public Distribution System and get their entitlement. Please forward the complaint to the concerned authority for immediate action.
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Policy Brief On Protocols To Be Followed For Returning Migrant Workers by NCDS
Om Damani, Srijit Mishra and Jayendran Venkateswaran | Anticipating the easing of lockdown and travel restrictions, states are already planning for the return of migrant workers and others. In this context, this policy brief suggests removal of travel and other restrictions in a staggered manner, proposes to register returnee migrant workers and others with limited…
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New Political and Economic Models Needed
I.D. Khajuria and Sandeep Pandey | Clearly not preparedness for war but willingness to work with each other is what will save humanity. Hence all animosities and rivalries must be given up, no-war pacts should be signed, if possible collectively through the United Nations, and stockpiles of arms and armies should be dismantled.
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Notice to the MAUD Secretary, Government of Telangana From SP(I) & UNITED CITIZENS’ FORUM, Continued…
Let us take the Covid19 crisis as an opportunity to rectify the governance lapses. we urge you to confirm registration of all domestic workers of Telangana. Further, constitute the Boards, if constituted put them in public domain on website .
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Letter to the MAUD Secretary, Govt of Telangana, From SP(I) and United Citizen’s Forum: Domestic Workers, Not “Maids” or “Househelp”
We urge you to issue clear advisories so that our frontliners especially police and other officials can implement it smoothly and effectively.
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Will Alcohol and Tobacco Use Jeopardize the Response to COVID-19?
Bobby Ramakant, Shobha Shukla and Sandeep Pandey | The government of India (and all other state governments) needs to review the merits of the decision of opening tobacco and alcohol shops. Among the most important and corrective political decisions would be the one to ban tobacco and alcohol altogether. Citizens need to be reassured that…
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वामपंथी समाजवादी दलों ने प्रवासी मजदूरों को निशुल्क उनके घर पहुंचाने की व्यवस्था करने , सभी मजदूरों को ₹7500 नगद दिए जाने की मांग की
निशुल्क रूप से बसों और ट्रेनों की व्यवस्था की जाए तथा सभी प्रवासी मजदूरों को ₹7500 नगद भुगतान किया जाए इस संबंध में मार्क्सवादी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी, भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी, सोशलिस्ट पार्टी (इंडिया),और एस यू सी आई ने संभागायुक्त को एक ज्ञापन भेजा है
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केरल के मुख्यमंत्री से सुदूर मल्लापुरम में फसे निज़ामाबाद, आजमगढ़ के छियासी मजदूरों को भेजने की रिहाई मंच ने की अपील
अजय यादव ने रिहाई मंच से संपर्क कर अवगत कराया कि वे और उनके 86 साथी केरल के जनपद मल्लापुरम के तिरुर में कांजराकोल में हैं। सभी टाइल्स मार्बल के काम में मजदूर हैं। इनके साथ तीन महिलाएं भी हैं। कोरोना महामारी की वजह से लंबे लाक डाउन की स्थिति में यह सभी अपने गृह…
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यह सरकार की कैसी नीति और नीयत: किराना, सब्जी की बिक्री पर रोक, शराब की बिक्री चालू
सरकारी खजाने की हालत बिगड़ी हुई बताई जाती है। शराब की बिक्री से सरकार राहत पाने की उम्मीद कर रही है। भले ही उसके चाहे जितने दुष्प्रभाव हों।
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Is Private Health ‘Industry’ a Big Hurdle in Containing COVID-19?
Bobby Ramakant, Shobha Shukla and Sandeep Pandey | Nationalizing health services is among the most important corrective political actions which governments can take in the wake of this pandemic. But health security for everyone can only come when we address inequalities and injustices in every other sector.
