A vast majority of the relief and rehabilitation packages announced in the months following the nationwide lockdown in India have focused on economic rehabilitation. However, the education sector has remained absent from this effort, including in India’s central government’s 250 billion dollar stimulus package. In this paper, we discuss the implications of lockdown-induced school and rural child-care center closures on education and health outcomes for the urban and rural poor. We especially focus on food and nutritional security of children who depend on school feeding and supplementary nutrition programs. We argue that the impacts are likely to be much more severe for girls as well as for children from already disadvantaged ethnic and caste groups. We also discuss ways in which existing social security programs can be leveraged and strengthened to ameliorate these impacts.

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封锁时期的学习：Covid-19 如何影响印度的教育和粮食安全

在印度全国封锁后的几个月内，宣布的绝大多数救济和恢复计划都集中在经济恢复上。然而，教育部门仍然没有参与这项努力，包括印度中央政府的 2500 亿美元刺激计划。在本文中，我们讨论了封锁导致的学校和农村托儿中心关闭对城乡贫困人口的教育和健康成果的影响。我们特别关注依赖学校供餐和补充营养计划的儿童的粮食和营养安全。我们认为，对于女孩以及来自已经处于不利地位的种族和种姓群体的儿童来说，影响可能要严重得多。