Meet an IAS officer COVID-19 warrior

April 20, 2020 15:20

"The lockdown has taught us many things. It has hit all of us hard, especially the poor. But it has prepared all of us for a long battle till the vaccine comes," Pratyay Amrit, the senior-most bureaucrat in charge of disaster management in Bihar, tells Archana Masih/Rediff.com, explaining how a state with the largest migrant population is helping Biharis stranded in other states and defending its citizens from the virus. Read the interview here.

Image: Labourers sift through an onion harvest. The Centre has allowed harvesting of the Rabi crop from Monday. Pic: ANI

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