Dear Hon Prime Minister. I am writing this thread from my Covid positive ICU bed in Mumbai and I am stable now but I didn’t start here. My symptoms developed in my little village high in the Himalayas. I have some points for u to consider And so here is one more thread 🧵 our little village in Munsyari Block of Pithoragarh district is a small place. 8000 folks in a cluster of villages. Let me tell you this virus has now reached even the remote glacial base villages. How did it get there ?

Dear Hon. Prime Minister. It is heartening to know that there is now focus on rural India as far as Covid19 response is concerned from the highest office in the government of India - your office @PMOIndia 🧵 I was going through the list of preparations. Although I grew up in Mumbai - I now live in a small village in the Munsyari Block of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand.

There is a nature crisis in the #Himalayas. This is a waterfall in the higher Himalayan region at 9500 ft altitude. The pic on the left was taken yesterday and the pic on the right was taken exactly a year ago. 🧵 The central Himalayas are facing one of the driest year in living memory. Snow has been scarce & so waterfalls like these that come from water pools fed by snow & glaciers are drying up. People in heavy rain areas like this one have no knowledge of how to deal with water scarcity

The issue with #COVIDVaccination in rural India is as follows. Long thread 1/n @drharshvardhan @PMOIndia @ShekharGupta @horror06 @PramitWorld @govindethiraj @nebuer42 @suhasinih @calamur @Karma_Paljor Took my 67 year old mother for her vaccination today. We live in a small village in the Munsyari block of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand. So went online to register her and the system allocated a time today 6th March afternoon at the local PHC. 2/n

Since there was an overwhelming demand for me to be specific & share what changes are warranted in the Farm reforms I am putting this thread out. I will be objective & share what works & what doesn’t. I agree that we need agri reforms but these loopholes need to be addressed. 1/n I would like to begin with The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020. Guidelines for Farming Agreement. The link to the full text is given below 2/n

agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/…

When you read the fine print of the farm laws-you realise the loopholes and gaps in these reforms. There are three mistakes in the approach here :
1. Not doing a focused parliamentary debate - an issue that affects 65% of country’s labour force, 3-4% of its GDP merited that 1/5

https://twitter.com/kaushikcbasu/status/1354253328792870913

2. When farmers from some states supported and from some opposed the Govt should have realised that it was passing an ad hoc reform without understanding that you can’t apply rules of grains to pulses and those of pulses to fruits and vegetables. 2/5