: The poor health infrastructure in India’s scheduled areas failed its Adivasis during the pandemic #IndiaNEWS As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the world and employment opportunities dried up, in many

The poor health infrastructure in India’s scheduled areas failed its Adivasis during the pandemic #IndiaNEWS
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the world and employment opportunities dried up, in many countries including India, Adivasis returned to their intergenerational, ancestral homes, often situated near forests.In the course of the reporting of this story, many of the Adivasi community workers from Jharkhand echoed one sentiment: “If at all we have to die, it is better to die among our loved ones.???India announced a nationwide lockdown on March 24. Within a few days of the announcement, the distress among the communities on the margins of society was palpable. Even as Adivasis made long journeys home, some were beaten to death simply for attempting such arduous travel, while others could not finish the trip at all. In one of the most chilling incidents, a 12-year-old girl Jamalo Madkam from Chhattisgarh fell dead from exhaustion just 11-km short of her Bijapur home after having walked 100 kilometres.Despite the immense hardships that Adivasi communities faced as a result of the stringent lockdown, the first response to their distress did not come from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs or the Ministry of Health. Instead, it came from the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change which, on April 6, restricted people from entering protected forests on the grounds of human to animal transmission,...Read more

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