95% of Indian households make less than ₹12,000 per month - when they have work. Which they don't any more.
Would you rather see your children go hungry for 21 straight days? Or would you rather a disease ravaged through your village and killed a few sick, old people?
These are the tough choices that India's poor make every day. India has the largest number of poor people in the world. They live one sickness, one accident, one job loss away from total ruin.
Absolutely anybody you encounter in urban India, are not poor by Indian standards. Not even the beggars on the street corners. They are not among the millions of people dying of hunger in this country every year.
When we already have one of the most malnourished population in this world, what does 21 days of lockdown do to them? Are we even thinking about that? What does the PM mean "help the poor". How do I help the really hungry in all the backward districts, while being locked up at home in Gurgaon?
Would you rather see your children go hungry for 21 straight days? Or would you rather a disease ravaged through your village and killed a few sick, old people?
These are the tough choices that India's poor make every day. India has the largest number of poor people in the world. They live one sickness, one accident, one job loss away from total ruin.
Absolutely anybody you encounter in urban India, are not poor by Indian standards. Not even the beggars on the street corners. They are not among the millions of people dying of hunger in this country every year.
When we already have one of the most malnourished population in this world, what does 21 days of lockdown do to them? Are we even thinking about that? What does the PM mean "help the poor". How do I help the really hungry in all the backward districts, while being locked up at home in Gurgaon?