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MANN ki BAAT

Q: Any count of migrant workers? PM: Who cares? Q: How many MSMEs got shut down? PM: You keep your mouth shut! Q: Any data of health workers who died while serving the people amid this pandemic? PM: Why do you wanna know? Just take a chill pill man!! Q: When will economy start to recover? PM: God knows! After all it's an Act of GOD! Q: What are you doing to mitigate common people's suffering? PM: We are committed to AAM( Ambani, Adani, Modi) आदमी betterment! Q: There are signs of increase in inequalities in society due to ongoing crisis. Any comments! PM: Try to be happy in others' success. Q: Millions of people are unemployed. What steps are taken by government? PM: We are planning to start Central Vista project and it will create employment opportunities for sure!! (after all people are required to build it) Just a hypothetical interview i imagined and it will remain to be. Because our beloved PM has not been addressed press conferences since his tenure star

Digital Divide

Education, a medium to fill up the differences in society and to give new perspectives to people's mindsets. Education, a way to achieve equality and to end prejudices against the vulnerables. Education that leads a nation on the path of progress and prosperity. Presently, the whole world is struggling to combat the impact of ongoing pandemic on every aspects of life. But if we talk about its future implications, the void created in the education sector will have major consequences, because the prolonged closure of schools & institutions is affecting the equal accessibility of educational reach to children. According to recent NSO Report on Education, only 24% of households have internet access in which rural households have merely 4% accessibility. It indicates that there is huge digital divide. Students who have ease of access to internet will go ahead of the students who are deprived of internet facilities. Although a colossal gap already exists in the quality of education

ACT OF GOD

From the silence on roads to the noise of vehicles, from clear blue sky to the dark gray clouds, from isolated to socialising with rules, from lockdown to Unlock 4.0, people have moved on. But this pandemic has turned people's lives upside down. 50-60,000 Corona cases are being daily reported, 18.9 million people have lost their jobs, Large number of small businesses are on verge of collapse, Sharp fall in consumption, Disinvestment in government assets, No or poor digital connectivity to significant number of students, -23.9% GDP in first quarter of FY20-21 A few things are mentioned here, the reality is far more worse. But is it only an ACT OF GOD or government's way to free itself from the responsibility? For that, just look at some data of last years; GDP growth rate trends: 8.3% in 2016-17 to 7% in 2017-18, 6.1% in 2018-19, 4.2% in 2019-20, Irregularities in paying GST compensation to States for last one year shows that Indian economy is not in healthy conditi