The lockdown has shown up the severe limitations in India’s state capacity, worst affected by which have been migrant workers. Not only have many of them been deprived of their livelihood, the state had very limited means to step into the breach. The current situation however provides an opportunity to rethink the way government engages its citizens. On the heels of the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already outlined a vision which calls for quantum change in the economy. For this change to come about, there also has to be a quantum change in the way government functions. […]
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