write a letter to municipal Corporation telling about the problems you are facing during this covid time
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On March 24, facing the perilous COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India abruptly imposed what amounted to a 21-day lockdown of a nation of 1.3 billion. Some 250 million of those people live on less than $2 a day, many with no secure home in which to practice social distancing, no nearby access to safe water or sanitation facilities.
The result was a mass movement of people that the veteran epidemic-focused health reporter Laurie Garrett this week said almost assuredly accomplished the opposite of what the government hoped for -— widely dispersing the highly contagious virus. “This undoubtedly spread COVID and has made it a national phenomenon in India,” she said in a video conversation on the Earth Institute’s Sustain What webcast.
The reality will emerge in the days to come, as testing and symptoms spread. But the impacts go far beyond the threat to health. Recent news reports show the threat of hunger is rising among the country’s poorest families and itinerant workers who can’t get their government cash payments or keep jobs.
At the same time, stories are also emerging of innovative community-led efforts to help front-line workers stay safe and provide food for the most vulnerable citizens with the least capacity to avoid the illness.
Below you can read one such story, sent by Pooja Iyengar, a video editor, filmmaker and social and environmental activist in Bhopal, the capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. (Pooja’s sister, Radhika Iyengar, is a familiar presence on State of the Planet and a research scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development.)