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Please read the article titled "No food, no cash, money in banks 40 km away: Rural Maharashtra’s women say they are waiting for death" by Prateek Goyal. Search the title on Google and it should come up in the newslaundry website. ARTICLE AVAILABLE ONLINE
How can some of the information provided in the article help to explain the conditions rural Indian women are living in under COVID-19? Please refer to the news laundry article for your explanation.
The distribution of the food supply chain in India is seeing a break up as the article shows. India is a nation of 13billion plus people who had a good crop this season. The article like this helps the government to make the distribution stronger in the days of the Covid 19 fight. The lack of infrastructure has been highlighted in the article is not true. India has its cash distribution network each 5 km apart. Every family of the nation has got Rs. 3000 in their account each month during the crisis. The rural especially has got the best of the rationing system which is free and has given more than required across the nation. However, even during the crisis if the news reporter can that deep in rural India, the situation of distribution. Further, the article doesn’t mention the amount that government transfers to the mother's account during childbirth sand the mandatory visit of village Angan Bari with food for both mother and child.
Hence the article may highlight the stoppage of food supply but based on hearsay of an activist don’t make for the news that’s uncaused and is helpful for the people in need.