"The “Accelerating India’s COVID-19 Social Protection Response Programme” will focus especially on making social benefits such as subsidised food under the National Food Security Act, cash transfers and pensions etc, portable so that beneficiaries could access them from anywhere in the country, not just from their home districts... Very clearly, everybody recognises the shock (from the pandemic). The choice is being said to be between lives and livelihoods."
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Quoted in World Bank to fund $1bn for mobile safety nets for Covid-19 hit migrants in India, Zia Haq Hindustan Times (15 May 2020)
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