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https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/odisha-s-nuapada-a-snapshot-of-how-covid-19-is-affecting-rural-india-76689 Odisha’s Nuapada a snapshot of how COVID-19 is affecting rural India Nuapada distrct experiences lack of oxygen, callous staff, a swelling number of infection cases and deaths and an administration in denial as COVID-19 wreaks havoc  By  Ajit Panda Published: Monday 26 April 2021  A person being tested for COVID-19 at the Khariar Road Railway Station in Odisha's Nuapada district. Photo: Twitter Handle of the Collector and District Magistrate of Nuapada The worst fears of experts regarding rural India during the first wave of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) last year are coming true. Nuapada, a district of Odisha bordering Chhattisgarh, offers a snapshot of the havoc that the pandemic is wreaking, now that it has reached these areas. Lack of oxygen, callous staff, the swelling number of infection cases and deaths and an administration in denial is ...

Nuapada loved MGNREGA amid COVID-19 lockdown; what happened next? Villagers who benefitted earlier shy away from jobs progamme as unpaid dues pile up since October 2020 By Ajit Panda Published: Tuesday 20 April 2021 Lockdown saviour MGNREGA losing appeal in Odisha’s Nuapada  Workers are disenchanted with MGNREGA across Nuapada's villages due to non-payment of wages since October 2020. Photo: Moyna / CSE Workers are disenchanted with MGNREGA across Nuapada's villages due to non-payment of wages since October 2020. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared an India-wide lockdown March 24, 2020 millions of migrant families were forced to scamper back home. While the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was taking lives, what about livelihoods? That was the big question. A large part of the answer lay in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). A year later, this reporter travelled to Odisha’s Nuapada district to find out how India’s flagship jobs p...