It was clear from the word go that this lapsed Ordinance was meant primarily to prevent the Supreme Court from appointing the Justice Madan B Lokur commission to prevent stubble burning.
Online teaching, physical coordination with students lacking digital access, frontline COVID duty — they have done everything expected of them. Yet their pleas fall on deaf ears everywhere.
Lockdown and absence of midday meals has hit child nutrition badly. Even worse-off are the very poor and street children, who are struggling to secure a meal a day.
The nutritional value of what the poor eat is not obtained from what they get with their ration card, but about what extra they can afford to put on the plate.
COVID-19 has made education technology-centric and the trend seems to be here to stay. But this will only widen the divide between different groups in terms of access to education.
Virtual school has created stress, uncertainty and confinement for students. But if and when schools do reopen, will parents feel comfortable sending their kids to school?
No one really expected the CAQM to immediately clear up the smog. NCR residents will simply have to wait and hope it shows results next year. The question is, will it?
COVID-19, job losses, salary cuts and no bonus have led to muted festival shopping. Sales staff seem confident though that things will look up as Diwali nears.
The hardest hit by COVID-19 were small contractors, employing five-six workers, mostly migrants, who fled the capital during March-May and are now hesitant to return.
More and more people who lost their jobs to the pandemic are making new beginnings. Earnings may be less initially, but the road ahead promises flexibility and independence.
