Coronavirus pandemic is forcing more and more children from the most vulnerable communities in India to leave their schools and work at farms, factories and construction sites. This has worsened the issue of child labour in the country,which is already one of the biggest child labour hub in the world.
Widespread flooding has been major issue for the last few months in India. The wrath of flood shows no sign to stop in several parts of the country. The scenes and images of the flood areas are heart-wrenching.People are wishing rain and rivers to show some kindness after months of catastrophe but they have to look at water everywhere.
Industries are luring migrant workers with promises of advance wages, free travel tickets, free accommodation and medical insurance and check ups if they return to the jobs.The same companies, which had totally forgotten about migrants when they needed food and shelter,are wooing them with new promises.
A huge crowd gathers at a bus stop or railway station in Delhi, Mumbai or other big city. After hours of waiting and expectations, no bus or train arrives, but police come to scatter the crowd with the use of teargas or lathi-charge (baton-charge). An official statement says rumors were going round about the availability of some bus or train, that’s why migrants gathered. And that’s done.
Nobody in this world has been untouched by coronavirus pandemic effects. Youngsters have been comparatively more immune to coronavirus, mostly either escaping infection by the virus or defeating the disease comparatively sooner if got infected. If not the direct heath impact, the pandemic is taking the toll on youngsters in indirect ways.
Take air inside yourself, slowly. Blow it out again, slowly. You say, you do it by default and it’s called breathing. Yes, you are correct, I too asked you to breathe but slowly. You are breathing alright but this kind of breath work concrete huge impact, inside out of you. It’s like a healing for your mind, body and soul.
With rapidly growing Covid infection rate in India, simultaneously increasing is the number of child marriages in many regions across the country and other parts of the world. It took decades to control the immensely high rate of child marriages and we still could not have managed to eliminate it totally.
With the growing cases of coronavirus victims, also are increasing trafficking incidents of women and minor children. Since the coronavirus lockdown, millions of people have lost their livelihood sources. To cover up their loses, many people from vulnerable families in India and other countries have been reported to get into this crime of child and women trafficking.
During and after the months of coronavirus lockdown,a lot of people lost their sources of livelihood and many undesirable elements found it easy to make quick income sources through digital frauds by the use of internet. In a result, cases of cyber-crime have seen a boost across the world. In the last a few months of pandemic, a sharp rise in cyber crime has been reported by global agencies.
Its direct impacts are very well-known.There are many other implications, which will take decades to get mitigated.Humanity will have to pay cost of the coronavirus outbreak with huge individual, social and economic losses. Vulnerable sections and children are worst hit by the Covid 19 pandemic. The deadly virus has infected over 20 million people so far, leaving more than0.7 million dead worldwide.
India, the country of rivers, is struggling for water, and that during coronavirus outbreak when over 1.30 billion people in the country need safe water to wash hands, body and things regularly in order to keep hygiene. It’s an irony that a number of regions are struggling with flood; other regions are looking at drought. Both in flood areas and drought regions, people are facing even drinking water crunch.
We may be continuously hearing about drastic flooding in many states of the country, yet there are a number of regions that are presenting more than enough proofs of drought situation in the country. While thousands of houses are drawn, people are homeless, humanity is displaced, in same states have many parts where farmers are looking at the sky in the hope of rain.
Like in past decades, nature doesn’t seem to be equally loving and caring for all the regions in India this year and decade too. Amid coronavirus lockdown, when human was in home, nature was healing but all is not well. Owing to drastic impacts of climate change, while some regions of the country saw devastating flood due to way above average rains, some of the states faced drought situation with little to no rains at all this year.
The biggest disease the world is suffering from is not due to a virus because the coronavirus is just an outcome of a bigger virus. This bigger virus is sickening and corrupting human minds with a more dangerous disease i.e. power hunger. This lethal disease affects drastically the mental heath of humans and makes them wild with obsession of being super power of the universe.
The coronavirus pandemic seems to be making dire economic impacts on humanity, even more than its health impacts. Millions of parents are forced to push their children into begging, child labor and child marriage for survival in the absence of livelihood sources, says a study. A number of other studies also prove that more children are falling prey to covid-related hunger worldwide.
Nepal government is stuck to its fake claims on Indian land. Neither these claims are worth having attention of India nor Nepal has any option except just showing India’s territory in its map and be happy seeing it in closed doors. As a totally selfish neighbor, Nepal wants whatever facilities they can have from India, and also eyeing at its land.
Since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, the world has seen a number of changes so far. Many changes may be temporary and we will be again doing things soon the way we did during pre-corona times. However, many changes are going to be permanent and these are likely to remain with us for many years or decades.
Coronavirus pandemic has put immense pressure on physical and mental health of children worldwide, especially children from vulnerable sections or regions, where having meal of two-times a day was a luxury even in fine days.The situation is so devastating that many women are too malnourished to nurse their infants.
On one hand half of the country is facing devastating flooding, on the other acute water crisis has become big problem for farmers in India. Due to the effect of climate change and extreme weather conditions, a number of people in Asia’s third largest economy are being displaced, losing livelihoods and dying either in result of flood situation or water crunch.
Flood situation in India is worsening at present. Among the most affected states, the condition in eastern state of Bihar and north-eastern state of Assam is worst due to the continuous rains. Among millions of people, who have been affected due to ongoing flooding in India, there are a large number of children
Don’t be prey of fraud employment agencies and fake job rackets and always be careful before applying online for any government or private job. If it is not an official website or source, where the job information is surfacing, think twice before you go head with application.
Finally, there is a good news and sigh of relief for woman officers of Indian Army. They can now provide their services in more streams of the organization and complete their term with more years of services, to be eligible to command and entitles for pension.
Despite many state governments claims of providing for all their needs or employment, the migrant workers are forced to live in a vulnerable and abandoned state in almost all the regions. Since India announced coronavirus lockdown in most of the regions on March 22 and in the entire country later, plights of migrant laborers have not ended so far.
Suffering is not new for Indian farmers as they are well accustomed to the term. But like other people, this year has been worst nightmare for agriculture and farmers’ sufferings have doubled up. Many farmers are saying no to vegetable farming this season, making you miss vegetables in your plates soon.
An appropriate vaccine for treatment of Covid 19 cannot be available for market use before the end 2020. It will take more time, say health experts. The trials of vaccine, named as Covaxin, have begun in the country with claims of developers working at rapid speed to bring out the final vaccine by August 15.
As Coronavirus cases are rocketing in India, there are all chances that many regions may be facing Covid 19 community transmission. What is stopping government to acknowledge community spread in India, ask health experts.
Global economy will take a lot of time to get back to previous position as the recession is deepest. Coronavirus has severely affected the global economy this year so far. Triggered by worldwide lockdown measures taken to contain coronavirus outbreak, the global economic slowdown is deepest in many aspects.
If you are being happy with some data released by a government on unemployment rates being better than their level in last few months, don’t be so excited. The world is facing a severe economic slowdown due to coronavirus outbreak.
Since the coronavirus has come into the scene, the most important thing world has realized is maintaining hygiene because without doing so, people cannot avoid even less powerful viruses and coronavirus is the most dangerous one ever experienced by present humanity.
Coronavirus pandemic has changed the life and lifestyle of people all over the world. While a few changes may be temporary, others are going to remain permanently with human lives.