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Improving India’s logistics sector calls for joint effort

August 05 , 2021

Source: The Hindu Business Line

The draft logistic policy has set ambitious targets. The Central/State govts and the logistics operators have a role to play in achieving them
It would be an understatement to stress that the current pandemic sweeping across the country has brought to light the critical importance of having an efficient and robust logistics network. Borrowing an analogy from Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation’ that stressed that famines don’t happen because there is a lack of food but rather because of the “inability to establish entitlement for enough food” — the oxygen crisis that gripped the NCR was not so on account of lack of oxygen but was because it could not be reached to the people on time.