Reporters DeskAbhishek Angad Ink
Mother was in pain, tried to help, was late: children battle grief, loneliness
Across Jharkhand, children orphaned by Covid carry on quietly — the state still working out how to support them.
Across Jharkhand, children orphaned by Covid carry on quietly — the state still working out how to support them.
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A reporter’s notebook from districts where Covid-19 emptied homes of parents and primary earners. The grief is visible only in passing — a child folding a school uniform, a grandmother counting medicines — but the social, economic and educational consequences are likely to last for years. The piece tracks how the state government is structuring relief, and where the gaps remain.