Important recommendations from Mr. Azim Premji.
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1. Expand MGNREGA: additional allocation of Rs 1 lakh crore, increasing the guaranteed number of days per household and increasing the daily wage.
2. Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme be designed, rolled out.
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1. Expand MGNREGA: additional allocation of Rs 1 lakh crore, increasing the guaranteed number of days per household and increasing the daily wage.
2. Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme be designed, rolled out.
3. Both these schemes can enable creation of productive assets, including infrastructure and agrarian assets, which will form the backbone of the countries’ economic revival.
4. Serious and sustained Investment in public health will help the campaign against this and future pandemics, and help build up a desperately needed functioning and responsive National Health System in our country.
5. Food security must be ensured – we must universalise and double the PDS ration for 3-6 months and distribute it free through doorstep delivery along with cooking oil, pulses, salt, masala, sanitary pads and soap in advance to all.
6. Emergency cash relief of Rs. 7,000/month for at least three months (w/o biometric authentication) to each poor household/migrant worker. Minimum wages for 25 days to be released to all poor urban residents for at least for two months month following the end of the lockdown.
7. Full autonomy and freedom should be provided to stranded and migrant labourers in deciding their travel plans, while ensuring all measures for containment of the pandemic.
