COVID-19: Reverse Migration of Labour and the Longer Road to SDGs, Documenting Coronavirus Pandemic as a News Correspond
The unprecedented economic crisis that wipes off progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been unleashed by COVID-19 pandemic. An unprecedented rise in hunger, poverty and unemployment worldwide has exposed the fault lines and structural
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How Media Reports a Disaster? Since the first COVID-19 case was detected in India on 30 January 2020 with a Wuhan link in China, I have had the opportunity to extensively document, analyze and report on the gradual spread of the Pandemic in India as a field correspondent. In the last three months, I have documented case studies in small factories, export units and industries in the National Capital Region; interviewed large number of migrant workers and poor who faced the brunt of the Lockdown; researched on the debilitating impact of Lockdown on Indian Economy and extensively reported on the unprecedented scale of unemployment which reached 27.1% in the week ending 3 May 2020 with 122 million workers losing jobs in the month of April alone. It has made it imperative for the global community to reprioritize, restructure and strengthen the existing social security regime for poor and the underprivileged people. It has fuelled a global
H. S. Mishra (B) New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), New Delhi, India © The Author(s) 2020 V. K. Malhotra et al. (eds.), Disaster Management for 2030 Agenda of the SDG, Disaster Research and Management Series on the Global South, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4324-1_21
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debate on the idea of a basic income scheme to provide for income maintenance to poor, especially during a lockdown period. In the context of growing socio-economic challenges faced by poor and the underprivileged people, this Chapter attempts to delineate the growing relevance of the SDGs in reconstructing and rebuilding lives in the post-COVID-19 world. It calls for a greater push towards implementation of the SDGs, even when an unprecedented economic crisis has seriously weakened the ability of countries to generate requisite financial resources to scale up their efforts in this direction. The paper argues that India and other affected countries will have to restructure and reallocate financial resources to achieve the SDG targets by 2030. At the larger level, COVID-19 crisis had made it imperative for the global community to focus on specifically four SDGs in the post-COVID-19 world: SDG 1 which aims to eradicate poverty by 2030; SDG 2 which essentially targets to end hunger and strengthen food security; SDG 3 which aims at ensuring healthy lives and SDG 8 which calls for efforts to promote sustainable economic growth, productive employment and decent work opportunity for everyone. COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented health and humanitarian crisis in the world. It poses the gravest challenge global community has faced since the World War II. It has exposed the limitations of the global and national health institutions in launching effective containment and testing strategies to limit its spread across the world. The institutional weaknesses in global response to the outbreak of COVID19 in China allowed it to spread all across the world. As one after the other developed countries fell to COVID-19, it unravelled worrying gaps in public health communication systems and expos
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