The construction labour was rendered jobless with stoppage of all construction and building activities. This section was dependent on its daily wage payment for the daily food needs. The section did not have spare resources to use in any kind of emergency situations. Clamp down of markets also made access to food difficult, they had no alternative but to return to their homes in distant places. As rail and bus services were halted they were forced to track down long distances on feet but without spare food or other resources with them to sustain the body energy to traverse distances of more than a thousand kms. No food joints that could supply them eatables within their purchasing ability were open to meet their needs.

The middle class person educated but has rarely visited a village, leave aside has known the social and economic condition of life in rural India will immediately ask but why did they need to return to their village? (The BJP leader Balbir Punj even described them as Bohemian beggars.) He would naturally overlook that free supply of five kg cereals and one kg dal per month was assured but the declaration came twenty four hour later. The young man from middle class had never to encounter the need to wait for free food to come in hand. He may not have experienced the mentality of the government employee in non essential services with the most easily available excuse of non availability of transport facility to shirk work. Why they be deprived of benefits of the wage paid holidays gift? We leave aside for the moment the mental process off the corrupt minds and their hurry to grab every opportunity to make unearned rupee. Even non corrupt would not be willing to rush to help helpless poor as most middle class persons preferred to remain behind the closed doors of their home. Of course some of them were actively engaged in doing what they understood as social services of forwarding the alarming messages received on their mobiles. One such forwarded message boasted of saving 8000 lives in 21 days due to stoppage of transport as 1235 persons get killed in road accidents every day. It was a great petty mind that penned original message as he would have no means of knowing how many lives were lost due to inability to reach hospital or other medical help as public transport system was pushed off the roads.

One can easily argue that such mishaps are inevitable consequences when society and the government have to battle with greater dangers. Agreed, in war times, entire society comes under undeclared martial law because priority is to fight the invading aggressor. But then you have to locate the invading army of known or unknown character. You cannot swing swords in air and win war.

The Home Ministry had to issue four amendments in three days to overcome lacunae in the original lock down order. Does it not mean that the original order was faulty and not prepared with full comprehension of actions, reactions and consequences? The government did not anticipate conditions of life and process of their thinking. Nor did it calculate the consequence of clamp down of the public transport system. The UP chief minister Yogi ordered the free bus service to help migrants travelling on their feet.

The nature of fight is revealed in a sordid incident in Bhilwara of Rajasthan. An old man was died of the Corona infection in the hospital, the family of dead claimed. Within 12 hours the district authority disclaimed the incident. It said that old man died not because of Corona infection but the family claim was to get more compensation. The claim was more due to the family greed.

In any case total number of the corona infection deaths in India was 17 from February 11, 2020 to March 27, 2020 with no death reported in previous 20 hours. If the Bhilwara incident is discounted then total death number comes down to 16 against sixteen thousand in America from March 1. In Europe toll proportion is even higher. China may never reveal facts. That leaves many wondering about the real intent behind the decision to clampdown the society for three weeks. The available information does not justify the alarming stance reflected by the clamp down order. The middle class was happy with the government order as it provided their children availability of the parents for whole day and that too for three weeks. The children must be yearning to want their father to put down mobile and thus cease from forwarding unconfirmed data and unverified alarms.

600 million of lower strata of Indian society without saved capital to be used in such emergency times are not a happy lot. Not only their immediate wages or daily earning opportunity is lost but future of their job also appears o be uncertain. 249 million are without an opinion. Such a sharp division was not witnessed earlier. More significant is silence of the Sangh Parivar. It had never shown hesitation in claiming its role in providing relief through its humanitarian work. Nine different organizations appear to be active in collecting funds for relief operations for poor. Fortunately no newspaper has started fund collection for relief. They are not sure of public response as their vendors refuse to deliver copies. It would seem the newspaper industry suffers much more. They produce but delivered child does not reach readers.