Thread by @anandraman

Positives: banking, telecom, remittances etc - things that have been put in place for several decades have worked through COVID
- Vijay Mahajan (VM)
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Areas of concern - from i-card.org data:

More than the last mile gap, we need to solve the first smile gap, says VM
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Rural India is going to lead the recovery process - VM
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Agri sector - neither supply - railways continued to work; nor demand got affected - we have to eat - regardless - VM
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Need to repair जल, जंगल. ज़मीन - VM; need rainwater harvesting; capture every drop in the 50 mn hectares
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We have finished off our soil fertility because of over fertilisation - need to invest in soil amendments - VM
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Most of this will largely require unskilled labour; the two can be made to fit via MNREGA; need the micro administration at the village level that needs to be done;
- VM
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Need national will, administrative participation, civil society to ensure long term livelihoods
- VM
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Need people to leave agriculture - not the villages; this requires skilling; took 15 years of systematic work to do
- VM
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1 crore SHGs with 50 L bank linked; - VM
Organise, before formalise;
Move people from supplicants to customers (personally hardcore about this)
- VM
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EFG - e-commerce (order); financial services (pay); goods (deliver);
This move needs to happen - VM
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MFI - BC - adding the last mile or the first smile; welcoming customers into the formal financial sector; - VM
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Shout out to @iris_swami your IRIS-GST portal by Vijay Mahajan as a useful educational site;
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No one has complained that they could not get vegetables through COVID - this is largely market led;
- VM
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This year and next year - use MGNREGA to drought proof rain-fed agricultural India
- VM
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