-The Indian Express If the government does not have the will to regulate 55,000 pre-natal diagnostic clinics, how will it track 29 million pregnancies annually? I was inspired by Maneka Gandhi’s struggle to get back her passport (impounded by the Janata Party government) as an IIT student in 1977. Her Supreme Court case led to a landmark judgment on personal liberty. Subsequently Gandhi filed petitions in courts to protect animal rights....
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Half of world’s air pollution deaths occur in China, India
-PTI More than 5.5 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution with over half of those deaths occurring in China and India Washington: More than 5.5 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution with over half of those deaths occurring in China and India, two of the world’s fastest-growing economies, according to a new research. According to scientists from the US, Canada, China and India, who...
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-The Times of India Ahmedabad: In response to a public interest litigation (PIL) asking for implementation of National Food Security Act in Gujarat, the state government has submitted to the Supreme Court that there is no need to provide eggs to children, as part of the mid-day meal scheme in the state. The PIL has been filed by NGO Swaraj Abhiyan, which also asked that milk and eggs should be provided...
More »Regulation of Doctors and Private Hospitals in India -Anant Phadke
-Economic and Political Weekly Anant Phadke (anant.phadke@gmail.com) is associated with the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, the People’s Health Movement in India. The issue of regulation of doctors and private hospitals is one that is increasingly becoming important for the citizen. The attempts by professional medical Associations to scuttle the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act of 2010 is the context for this essay on the issues that afflict the provision of private healthcare....
More »MP govt trying to privatise school education, say teachers -Milind R Lashkari
-Hindustan Times Indore: The Madhya Pradesh government is trying to privatise education in state-run schools, said contractual teachers on Sunday. Contractual teachers participating in Shiksha Kranti Yatra alleged that the state government was trying to hand over the running of government schools to private institutes and blaming them for the falling standards of education. More than 500 contractual teachers from different districts of the state, who are undertaking the march to highlight their...
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