-The Hindu They are protesting salary deduction Malaria and TB treatment is seriously affected in Manipur following a strike by contractual employees. The worst hit are the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course, the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) and sputum microscopy programmes. T. Lenindro, general secretary of the All Manipur RNTCP contractual workers’ Welfare Union, toldThe Hindu that though the contractual appointment of 116 employees of the RNTCP from March 2012 to...
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Radiation leak at Rawatbhata: Cover-up begins
-Pratirodh Bureau After the radiation accident at the Rawatbhata Atomic Power Plant (RAPP) was brought into light by DiaNuke.org, the NPCIL’s media managers seems to have gone into a knee-jerk trouble shooting mode. Whereas the initial news in Rajasthan Patrika mentions 38 workers being exposed to Tritium leak at Rawatbhata, Nalinish Nagaich, the Executive Director in-charge of media at the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has reportedly said that only...
More »TB cases in Mumbai: Central team makes blueprint
-PTI A team of doctors deputed by the union ministry of health and family welfare has come up with a blueprint to curb TB cases in Mumbai, a top municipal official in Mumbai said. "The pilot project will be adopted across the country after it succeeds in Mumbai," additional municipal commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar said. The project, to be carried out under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, would be integrated with the basic public health...
More »Inequality rises in India, says OECD
-PTI India has become "less equal over time" and earningsinequality in the country has increased significantly since the early 1990s, Paris-based think tank OECD said today. The observations are a part of OECD's report focusing on inequality patterns and related policy challenges in the emerging economies of India, China, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is a 34-member grouping of mostly advanced nations, that...
More »India's income inequality has doubled in 20 years
-The Times of India Inequality in earnings has doubled in India over the last two decades, making it the worst performer on this count of all emerging economies. The top 10% of wage earners now make 12 times more than the bottom 10%, up from a ratio of six in the 1990s. Moreover, wages are not smoothly spread out even through the middle of the distribution. The top 10% of earners make...
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