China Central Television, Mumbai Bureau

Stories for CCTV by Gao Zhan and Saurabh Kumar

Cyclone Tauktae left so many people homeless and injured behind during the pandemic

Housing is a basic human right, it’s a basic necessity and it cannot be treated as a commodity. Cyclone Tauktae left so many people homeless and injured behind during the pandemic.

The resident of Ambedkar Nagar in the Kurar village slum settlement are still living a miserable and fearful life as the government has neither done anything to improve their living condition nor have done anything to avoid such disasters from happening in the future.

“Dabawala” Provides Free Lunch Outside KEM Hospital


Mumbai Dabbawala, the iconic tiffin box suppliers in collaboration with Mumbai Roti bank are providing food to the needy in this difficult time.

Known by their white kurta uniforms, complete with the traditional Gandhi cap, and riding bicycles, Dabbawalas, who used to deliver cooked food to office-goers in Mumbai by picking up the tiffin from their respective homes, have now seen only 300 out of 5000 registered members working with each Dabbawala delivering an average of 5 tiffins instead of 20 to 25 tiffin per day.

Since 1890, Dabbawalas have been fulfilling the hunger of 200,000 office-going people in the city. However, due to strict pandemic restrictions, most of them were not allowed to enter residential buildings and offices while the job losses of their clients or those working from homemade the tiffin service redundant.

Being out of work, some had to take up odd jobs as labourers, others as watchmen to make a living.

Now, this initiative has scaled up its efforts to distribute free food and other help to the needy and trying to do more once they get help from different NGOs, civil servants and government.

Workers under the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in India: Still Facing Survival Dilemma


The number of people in India’s middle-income group, which comprises people earning between $10.01 and $20 daily, has shrunk by 32 million in 2020 because of the Covid-19 recession, according to an analysis by Pew Research Center released in March.
Over 122 million people lost their jobs due to the lockdown distress, with daily wagers, laborers, and small traders accounting for over 91 million of the jobs lost within April 2020. In May 2020, India’s unemployment rate, already at a six-decade high, rose to 27.1 percent.

According to the 2011 Census, there are 41 million interstate migrants in India. Most of them are from poorer, less educated, and socially disadvantaged communities. Despite contributing 10 percent of India’s GDP, they are indeed a neglected lot.

Free food provided by volunteers from the “community kitchen” in India’s slums


Some locals took action after learning about the difficulties of slum residents. Some volunteers have opened a “community kitchen” in Ambujwadi to provide free food to slum residents in difficulties.

Slum residents in India: We may survive from COVID but will die from hunger


The slums in India were once regarded as a “ticking time bomb” after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic last year. However, in the ongoing second wave, the situation in the slums are basically ignored. Some slum residents in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, said that they seemed to be abandoned and faced difficulties in survival.

Mumbai starts “limited” new crown vaccination work


Mumbai’s Limited New Crown Vaccination Work Featured in CCTV’s Coverage of India’s Third Phase of Vaccination.

Shortage of medical resources, doctors are exhausted physically and mentally


“Working 48 hours inside a PPE is like working one lifetime. With so much more difficulty sitting inside a PPE, with lack of resources and the emotional burden of watching patients die when you’re not able to do enough for them. So, in that sense, (it is) physically exhausting, mentally exhausting, and emotionally exhausting very much.”
– Dr. Murtuza Ghiya, Mumbai

The epidemic situation in India is rapidly worsening


The epidemic situation in India is deteriorating rapidly: Medical resources are in short supply, and Mumbai’s shelter hospitals are full again.

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