Overall, the representation of women in decision-making bodies is not that high at all...What that does is that it makes the gendered impacts invisible. To maintain or improve gender equality, policies will have to be gender-targeted in terms of their impacts.

Women do between six to nine times more hours of domestic work than men...Ignoring gender will slow down the fight against COVID-19. Flattening the pandemic curve should not be at the expense of shadow pandemic curve rising exponentially.

In the fight against COVID-19, many other essential diseases and outbreaks are getting ignored. Now we're getting reports about Dengue, Malaria and Chikungunyaa, which are also killer diseases...There's a whole range of public health emergencies even if you didn't count the economic costs of the lockdown.

What the pandemic is revealing is just how important migrants are to production and service provision in the Indian economy. I don't think the magnitude of the migrant's contribution to the economy was ever as clear as it is now. It's really a very big segment of the workforce, on the backs of which industries and services run in this country.

The recovery programme proposed has two components – to provide a comprehensive safety net for vulnerable sections and to jumpstart the economy. This is ambitious and requires a sizeable outlay, notably 10% of GDP as proposed in the report. But, in view of the magnitude of the crisis, we agree that the cost is worth it and fiscal sustainability should not be a concern right now.