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19 May

1/7. The number of schoolteachers who died of Covid-19 after compulsory duty in UP’s panchayat polls has risen to 1,621 – 1,181 men and 440 women. And the toll could rise further. Link to story (with full list of those deaths) at end of thread.
#COVID19 #Elections2021

2/7. The UP government says there is no proven connection between the holding of the elections and the deaths of these teachers who, as the Allahabad High Court noted, did not volunteer to render their services “but it was all made obligatory.”
#COVID19 #Elections2021

3/7. The UP government, the unions point out, sought no postponements. Rather, its pleader had assured the Supreme Court “that guidelines for protecting people from Covid infections would be strictly followed during counting of votes.” That never happened.
#COVID19 #Elections2021

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14 May

1/6. 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 (not for the speaker, but countless thousands of others): “Remember, victory in the Mahabharat war came in 18 days. Against Covid it will take 21 days.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi. March 25,2020. (Do add your own favourites).
#COVID19India

2/6. 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 (not for the speaker, but for countless thousands of others): “Today, India is ready to protect humanity with not one but two Made in India Corona Vaccines.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pravasi Divas meet, January 9, 2021.
#COVID19India

3/6. 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 (not for the speaker but for countless thousands of others): "India has been successful in saving so many lives, we saved the entire humanity from a big tragedy.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Davos, January 28, 2021.
#COVID19India

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16 Apr

1/7. Indian Billionaires, now 140 in number, almost doubled their wealth in the pandemic year, says Forbes magazine, their combined worth reaching $596 billion (Rs. 44.5 trillion). In a year when GDP contracted 7.7 %. Story link at end of thread.
#Forbes #ambani #Farmers #COVID19

2/7. India’s 140 billionaires account for 0.000014 per cent of the population. But they hold wealth equivalent to 22.7 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product of $ 2.62 trillion, bringing that whole other meaning to the word 'Gross.'
#Forbes #ambani #Farmers #COVID19

3/7. The total wealth of our top 2 $ billionaires, Ambani ($84.5 billion) and Adani ($50.5 billion), is far greater than the gross state domestic product of Punjab ($85.5 billion) or Haryana ($101 billion) whose farmers they stand pitted against.
#Forbes #ambani #Farmers #COVID19

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8 Mar

1/6. International Women’s Day: remember this group for whom ‘there is always a lockdown.’ Over 80 per cent of Indian nurses are women. A brilliant story in PARI by Kavitha Muralidharan on nurses in Tamil Nadu. Story link at end of thread.
#WomensDay #healthworkers #COVID19

2/6. Nurses working in Covid-19 wards do so at very high risk. Thousands have contracted the virus in India these past 11 months, and several have died – but data on healthcare worker deaths from Covid-19 are notoriously unreliable.
#WomensDay #healthworkers #COVID19

3/6. Some nurses, themselves lactating mothers, have worked in wards taking care of pregnant mothers – and their babies – down with Covid-19. This means shutting themselves off from their own, often less than year-old children for long periods.
#WomensDay #healthworkers #COVID19

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6 Feb

1/6. Are those noisy Punjabis at Delhi’s gates “rich farmers?” The average monthly income of a farm household (avg. 5.24 persons) in that state was Rs. 18,059. Or a monthly per capita income of Rs. 3,450. (NSS 70th Round). Story link at end of thread.
#FarmersProtests

2/6. In Haryana: Farm household avg. 5.9 persons. Avg. monthly income Rs.14,434 or Rs. 2,450 per capita. That’s income from ALL sources: cultivation, livestock, wages/ salaries, non-farm businesses. Gee! Such wealth. What a ball these folks must be having.
#FarmersProtests

3/6. Sure they’re better off than farmers in, say, Gujarat: Farm household avg. 5.2 persons, Avg. monthly income Rs. 7,926 (or Rs. 1,524 per capita). All India average: farm household 5.1. Avg. monthly household income Rs. 6,426. Per capita barely Rs. 1,300
#FarmersProtests

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29 Dec 20

1/5. The Indian Jawan is a Kisan in uniform. And among the lakhs of peasants at Delhi’s gates is this group of 6 war heroes and veterans who have between them won over 50 medals in wars they’ve fought for India. (story link at end of thread)
#FarmersProtests #JaiJawanJaiKisan

2/5. “When we fought the wars, our parents were on the land, farming. Now our children are at the borders, and we do the farming,” says Colonel Jaswinder Singh Garcha (retd.), in his seventies.
#FarmersProtests #JaiJawanJaiKisan

3/5. ‘This is one of the world's biggest revolutions happening right now, at the gates of Delhi,’ says Brig. Gill (retd.), 72, soldier and farmer. ‘I fail to fathom why government is not repealing the laws, which it should have done already.’
#FarmersProtests #JaiJawanJaiKisan

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