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Healthcare plan rollout by October 2; 40% funding by states -Durgesh Nandan Jha and Mahendra Singh

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Government's ambitious mega health care programme for 10 crore poor families will roll out by October 2 and is to be funded in a 60:40 proportion by the Centre and states, with the premium per family estimated at Rs 1,000-1,200. Ten crore families or 50 crore beneficiaries, classified as 'deprived' in the socio-economic caste census of 2011, will be covered by the scheme. It will...

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Union budget shows "no concern" for hunger, malnutrition, rural distress, reduces maternal benefit allocation

-Counterview.net Calling the 2018-19 Union budget "highly disappointing", the top advocacy group, Right to Food Campaign (RFC), in a comprehensive analysis, has said, it has "miserably failed to respond to the present situation of rural distress and mass unemployment", adding, "Despite a spate of starvation deaths in different parts of the country, the budget makes no mention of hunger or malnutrition." Thus, RFC says, "There was some hope that the budget would...

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Punjab industry gives thumbs down to Arun Jaitley's Union Budget -Mohammad Ghazali

-Hindustan Times The industry termed it a populist budget to reap electoral gains. Ludhiana: The industry in Ludhiana found nothing to cheer about in the Union Budget presented by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday. Industrialists and traders from across the city, often called the Manchester of India, were expecting tax relief and sops for micro, small and medium enterprises. President of the Federation of Industrial and Commercial Organization Gurmeet Singh Kulhar said...

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Budget 2018: Kiska Saath, Kiska Vikas? -N Paul Divakar

-TheWire.in The Dalit and Adivasi community’s analysis of the budget shows gross under allocation – only 50.7% has been allocated towards targeted schemes for SCs and 51.24% for STs. On the 26th January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in the social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will recognize the principle of one man one...

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I-Day launch goal for National Health Protection Scheme, aims to cover 10 crore poor families -Abantika Ghosh

-The Indian Express The ambitious scheme aims to cover over 10 crore “poor and vulnerable” families — an estimated 50 crore individual beneficiaries — with coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year. The Niti Aayog is working towards a launch on Independence Day of the Government’s latest flagship National Health Protection Scheme, which was announced in the Union Budget Thursday. Top officials in the Aayog said that...

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