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Rajasthan does a U-turn on free medicines, introduces insurance cover -Jyotsna Singh

-Down to Earth Vasundhara Raje government adopts targeted approach for the scheme which can now be availed only by beneficiaries of food security programme The Rajasthan government has downsized its much-acclaimed free medicines and diagnostics scheme, the Mukhyamantri Nishulk Dava Yojna, launched in 2011. The Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government has adopted a "targeted approach" in implementing the scheme which was a "universal" one when launched by the previous Congress-led UPA regime. Public...

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Cracks in Budgetary Policies towards the Social Sectors -Subrat Das

-Economic and Political Weekly The Union budget for 2014-15 offers few changes in terms of policy priorities from the United Progressive Alliance government's interim budget for 2014-15, and it fails to recognise the cracks in the country's budgetary policies towards the social sectors, which have been worsening over time. Subrat Das (subrat@cbgaindia.org) is with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, Delhi. Please click here to download ...

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Union budget and the 'Digital Divide': Old Wine in New Bottle -Vipul Mudgal

-Economic and Political Weekly   The emphasis on use of digital technologies to bridge the "rural-urban gap" in the Union budget is limited to high talk and minimal allocations. The need for a more comprehensive and peoples' participation-oriented rural action plan should have been the focus while setting sectoral allocations, but that is not to be in this mid-year budget. Vipul Mudgal (vipulmudgal@gmail.com) heads the Inclusive Media for Change project at the Centre...

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Union budget: Contours & Dimensions -Sona Mitra

-Yojana   It would be good for the government not to pay much attention to the misconceived theories that public provisioning for the poor is equivalent to ‘populism' and would lead to higher fiscal deficit and low GDP. On the other hand, steps to improve public provisioning of basic necessities would definitely augur well for the overall growth of the economy by bringing down the levels of social and economic inequalities and...

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Key labour reforms get Central push -Surabhi

-The Indian Express The changes also aim to prohibit pregnant women and persons with disabilities from being assigned to machinery-in-motion. In its first major step towards overhauling the country's labour laws, the government on Wednesday cleared long-pending amendments to three critical laws in the sector that would enable a doubling of the overtime limit for workers, exemption for firms employing up to 40 workers from compliance of labour regulations and allow more...

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