Nutrition, Human Development and COVID-19: Some Thoughts on Assam

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused inconceivable human suffering and will worsen gender-based inequalities. With economic activity put on hold, women already disadvantaged in access to decent work will suffer the most. . With halt to economic activities poverty and deprivation will escalate. The AHDR, 2014 showed that over the past one and a half decade, state lost about one-third of the potential aggregate human development due to the prevailing inequalities underlying achievements in education, health and income dimensions. The loss due to inequality was highest in income dimension (44%) followed by health (32%) and education (9%).