June 1, 2021
India’s COVID-19 response limited by strong urban and tech bias
India's response to the second wave of COVID-19 glosses over the lack of infrastructure and technology know-how in rural India.
Raunaq Parveen is a graduate from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. She has strongly been expressing her experiences as a migrant worker stuck in Uttar Pradesh during the COVID -19 lockdown and has actively engaged with migrant workers’ issues in workers' webinars. Upon returning to her village, she started an informal savings group. Currently, she is working to register this group as a formal self-help group.