Lockdown rendered Ganga clean. Better than what was not achieved after the spending of Re 5000 crores. So is the Yamuna. Faulty industrialisation has polluted rivers, spoilt the environment.
Modern agriculture caused a 65 percent fall in water level and degraded 30 percent of farmlands.
PAU’s farm scientists never advised farmers against the leveling of sand dunes for rice farming.
Installed at equal cost to leveling, the sprinklers could have irrigated natural, unlevelled fields for growing NOT rice but vegetables/fruits.
PAU rendered farming an industry dependent on fertilizers/chemicals changing farmers’ health/mental make-up driving them to urbanisation/ depression /debt/ suicide. Inorganic food grains are not healthy and do not build needed immunity among humans against Corona.
Villagers following urban ruling elites engrossed in consumerism/ greed/ immoral life that have destroyed Nature /ecology.
At Global Hunger Index India ranked 102nd among 117 countries- lower than Pakistan.
Per capita consumption among urban Indian has recently increased by 3 percent to Re 3200 while in villages it came down by 8 percent at Re 1300.
Domestic 35 lakh migrant workers heavily suffered in lockdown. Internet traffic is now up by 30 percent forcing a policy change by operators. Fuel-diesel/ petrol consumption has slumped to 66 percent in India.
Eight doctors died of Corona in the UK — none of them was ‘White’, all hailing from Asia and Africa.
Orissa and Punjab enhanced lockdown till April 30.
Newspapers lost circulation in lockdown- a prominent daily’s print order came down from 14 to ONE lakh.
Either Journalists/ other employees’ salaries are reduced by 30-40 percent or one-third of them shown the door.
