{"id":17913,"date":"2020-05-05T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/05\/where-indias-government-has-failed-in-the-pandemic-its-people-have-stepped-in-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T05:30:28","slug":"where-indias-government-has-failed-in-the-pandemic-its-people-have-stepped-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17913","title":{"rendered":"Where India\u2019s government has failed in the pandemic, its people have stepped in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil society has outperformed the state in helping to feed India\u2019s poorest. It should be seen as ally not enemy<\/p>\n<p>The highways connecting India\u2019s overcrowded cities to the villages had not seen anything like it since the time of partition 73 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of workers were on the move, walking back to their villages with their possessions bundled on their heads.<\/p>\n<p>On 24 March, India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a nationwide 21-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/mar\/30\/divided-delhi-under-lockdown-if-coronavirus-doesnt-kill-me-hunger-will\">lockdown<\/a> to contain the coronavirus pandemic. States sealed their borders, and transport came to a halt. With no trains or buses to take them home, India\u2019s rural-to-urban migrant population, estimated at a staggering 120 million, took to the roads. On 5 April a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIB_India\/status\/1246768361779933184\">statement<\/a> from the home ministry said 1.25 million people moving between states had been put up in camps and shelters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/05\/where-indias-government-has-failed-in-the-pandemic-its-people-have-stepped-in-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil society has outperformed the state in helping to feed India\u2019s poorest. It should be seen as ally not enemyThe highways connecting India\u2019s overcrowded cities to the villages had not seen anything like it since the time of partition 73 years ago. H&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,1311,59,232,1389,62,1353,347,958,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-food-poverty","category-global-development","category-governance","category-hunger","category-india","category-inequality-and-development","category-nutrition-and-development","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17914,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913\/revisions\/17914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}