Articles by Balasubramanya Ramaswamy

Balasubramanya is a Chartered Accountant and Financial Advisor, and formerly a Board Member and Chief Financial Officer at Fidelity Investments. He is an active member of the core group of the Vasanth Nagar Residents’ Welfare Association.

In this series, individuals, citizen groups and RWAs explain how they have dealt with the COVID-19 crisis in a constructive manner. In the sixth part of the series, a resident of Vasanth Nagar describes the measures his RWA took. It was two days into the nationwide lockdown when Muniratna, a milkman, mentioned to one of our core team members, “Sir, what about daily wagers in the area? They can’t go anywhere, how will they survive?” Muniratna’s question got this VRWA core team member thinking. He and his family decided to initiate their own small pilot effort to test the waters…

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