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India coronavirus dispatch: Fall & rise in Covid-19 numbers in the country

From learning about how labour laws got here, to how the lockdown may change the work culture in the country, to calls to revive MGNREGS

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A medic collects a swab sample of a migrant after arriving from Chennai via 'Shramik Special' train, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, at Nehrubali in Nagaon District. Photo: PTI

Sarah Farooqui New Delhi

5 min read Last Updated : May 24 2020 | 1:41 PM IST

Maximising labour’s share in national income, volunteers feeding India’s most vulnerable, and how the coronavirus pandemic may change work culture. Read all this and more in this selection of pieces from across Indian publications on Covid-19.

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Revive MGNREGS, resume infrastructure works, offer minimum income guarantee: The Centre’s Rs 20 trilion stimulus as a part of its Atmanirbhar Bharat Package to boost the economy “is unlikely to meet the requirements”, says Santosh Mehrotra, professor of economics and the chairperson of Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies. Read this interview here to understand

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