Let Bengal be Heard: Dealing with Covid and Cyclone Amphan together

Majumdar, Boria (2020) Let Bengal be Heard: Dealing with Covid and Cyclone Amphan together. South Asian History and Culture, 11 (3). pp. 317-322. ISSN 1947-2498

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2020.1780063

Abstract

Reeling under the double burden of a biological and a natural disaster, West Bengal needs civil society mobilization in terms of both local and global synergy to rebuild the state and its economy. By acknowledging the lack of constitutional clarity regarding ‘disaster’ and hence the inherently conflicting centre-state relationship over disaster management, this paper argues that exclusive dependency on the government will yield no result at this hour. What is needed is a partnership between government and private initiatives and the civil society, especially the Bengal diaspora.


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