Our failures and successes will offer learnings on how best to tackle another national emergency The national lockdown to contain the covid-19 outbreak is now entering its final phase.
It is premature to say that things will return to normal after 3 May. On the contrary, the ugly economic and human costs of the lockdown have started to show, with stories of starvation, death and loss of income taking an increasingly serious turn.
Since most households in India are engaged in informal jobs, with a substantially large segment either poor or vulnerable to poverty for lack of savings, there are limits to how much household expenditure can be managed.