-Hindustan Times Just how many people in India are poor? The question remains unanswered with yet another government panel failing to define an official “poverty line”. After a year and half of work , a 16-member task force headed by NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya has failed to reach a consensus and suggested to the government that another panel of specialists be asked to do the job. HT has a copy of...
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PM Modi's big four cabinet ministers show frugality at refurbishing, others generous -Nidhi Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Big Four ministers in the Narendra Modi government — finance minister Arun Jaitley, home minister Rajnath Singh, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and defence minister Manohar Parrikar — haven't spent a paisa on office improvement. But junior ministers and less-heavy weight ministers, including those affected by the recent Cabinet reshuffle, have been keener on doing up their workplace. ET's RTI questions on office decoration expenses revealed office improvements...
More »The foreign hand isn't enough -Alex M Thomas
-The Hindu The pursuit of full employment of labour cannot primarily rely on domestic private investment, much less FDI. Only public investment will steady us in the long run. We are increasingly told that the inflow of capital — particularly the foreign direct investment (FDI) variety — increases employment levels and contributes to economic growth. In a rare interview given to The Wall Street Journal in May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reinforced...
More »Average cost of type-1 diabetes management: 27k/year -Shailvee Sharda
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Seeing their child in tears each time an insulin pen pricks the belly isn't the only pain parents of a type-1 diabetic child have to go through. The cost associated with management of the disease hurts equally, if not more. A middle-income family spends an estimated 18% of family income on the disease. The findings are from a study conducted by the department of endocrinology at Sanjay...
More »Expenditure on freebies not transparent: Report
-The Hindu The government incurred an expenditure of about Rs. 5,049 crore in 2014-15. Chennai: The State’s accounting of expenditure on freebies is not clear and does not transparently disclose the nature of details, said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report for the year ended March 2015. The report pointed out schemes like free distribution of laptops, marriage assistance schemes, free supply of grinders, mixies, fans, Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health...
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