Amitabh Kant is a celebrated IAS Officer of the batch of 1980. He holds various other positions in the Government apart from being the CEO of NITI Aayog. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 50 most influential people revolutionizing governance by Apolitical, a global government learning platform. He’s also been featured as one of the 45 celebrated Indians by India Today and the Administrator of the Year Award by NDTV. He’s the man behind some of the most well-known campaigns and initiatives such as ‘God’s Own Country’, ‘AtithiDevoBhavah’, ‘Made in India’ and ‘Startup India’ among many others.

Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-Founder of Koo, said: “I’m very happy to have Amitabh Kant share his thoughts here on Koo. All of us have a lot to learn from a celebrated officer like him. He’s given India some of the most well-known initiatives and reforms that have been defining for start-ups and businesses at large. I’m sure many entrepreneurs and even other bureaucrats will be excited to hear his thoughts and connect with him on Koo. He will also be able to connect with a much larger audience by sharing these thoughts in his mother tongue.”

Koo has attracted many prominent faces of India to the platform since the last few months. These include Union Ministers and Chief Ministers, Bollywood Actors, Actresses, Directors, Sports Personalities, Top Indian bureaucrats and members of the armed forces, among many other distinguished personalities. It’s common to see these prominent figures engage with users everyday on Koo.

Many celebrities and prominent personalities have got anywhere between 2x-100x the number of

followers here in a very short span of time. They are seen Kooing in multiple Indian languages catering to unique audiences that aren’t seen on Twitter. This stands true to the proposition that Koo has been building around – the power of vernacular languages in India’s internet.

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Crores of migrant labourers, working at factories, construction sites and brick kilns across the country, were left without food, shelter or income when the central government announced a sudden nationwide lockdown in late March – two months after the coronavirus pandemic hit India.

Earlier this month, after lakhs of migrants set out for their village on foot, producing haunting images of pregnant women and exhausted children walking on the country’s highways, the central government agreed to run special trains and allow buses to ferry them.

Speaking to NDTV, Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive of the government’s think tank said while the lockdown had been successful in controlling an even more widespread virus outbreak, the migrant workers’ crisis was handled poorly.

“It is important to understand that migrants issue was a challenge because over the years, we have created laws which have led to a huge amount of informal workers in economy,” he said.

“This was the responsibility of the state governments to ensure that the workers were well taken care of. In a vast country like India, federal government has a limited role. This was a challenge where I think we could have done a much, much better job of taking care of every single worker at the state, local, district level,” Mr Kant said.

Dozens of migrant workers have fallen sick or died on their way home, either from fatigue or in accidents, underscoring the extreme risks the poor have been exposed to under measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

The government has responded to criticism of its handling of the migrant worker crisis by promising extra finance to get those stranded back home and provide food rations.

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