Thread by @kirti_sd

Indian govt is battling economic crisis caused by the #COVID19 pandemic by relying on the banking sector which is already wounded due to rising bad loans./1

The pre-crisis challenges for youth are now amplified since COVID-19 hit. As many as 41 lakh youths in India have lost their #jobs due to the COVID-19 #pandemic, majority of whom worked in farming and construction./2

24 %of the households of students in India have internet access and in urban areas, 42 % of households have access to the internet as compared to 15 %in rural areas, this online education is catering to the needs of a chosen few./3

Our #healthcare system is not geared towards preventing illnesses. There was too much to do in February for the virus to be accommodated in the Govt's timetable./4

Our Govt failed to use the #lockdown time to conduct comprehensive contact tracing, scale up #testing, and prepare medical infrastructure for the pandemic. It is trapped in a vicious cycle of wrong decisions & policies. This incompetence is seen in every sphere of governance./5

What we witness is 27 lakh positive cases & counting , 53 k deaths & counting...
a crippled economy,
strained relations with all our neighbours and
a megalomaniac leader./6