-The Hindu State has the worst patient-doctor ratio and most number of centres without electricity, water supply or good roads New Delhi: Facing a shortfall of 2,277 doctors — against the required strength of 3,621 — and with 942 primary health centres (PHCs) working without electricity, regular water supply and all-weather motorable approach road, Uttar Pradesh’s PHCs have the worst patient:doctor ratio and infrastructure in the country to cater to the poorest...
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Give farmers their due credit -Ashok Gulati & Ritika Juneja
-The Indian Express All crop loans should be routed through Kisan Credit Cards. This will ensure that farmers do not use the loans for non-agricultural purposes. Normally, a sector’s credit off-take is a sign of its health. Higher the off-take, the better the sector’s performance. There has been a healthy off-take of ground-level credit (GLC) in agriculture and allied sectors. In the financial year (FY) 2018-19, banks disbursed Rs 12.55 trillion...
More »Open defecation-free India: National Statistical Office survey debunks Swachh Bharat claims -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Only 71% of rural households had access to toilets at a time the Centre was claiming 95% The latest National Statistical Office (NSO) survey on sanitation debunked the claims of an open defecation-free or ODF India made by the Centre’s flagship Swachh Bharat scheme, although it did record great progress in toilet access and use in rural areas. The survey, released on Saturday, showed that about 71% of rural households had...
More »rural India open defecation free? Not quite, shows NSO survey report -Somesh Jha
-Business Standard Around 71.3 per cent of rural households and 96.2 per cent of urban households had access to toilets during 2018, according to the survey More than one-fourth of households in villages have no access to toilets, according to the latest official survey conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO). Around 71.3 per cent of rural households and 96.2 per cent of urban households had access to toilets during 2018, according to...
More »Tribal woman who teaches Sanskrit says qualification alone should matter -Bishwanath Ghosh
-The Hindu People may have long stopped speaking Sanskrit, but I don’t find a decline in interest in the subject, says Sarathi Hembram. Kolkata: Sarathi Hembram lives in a rural pocket of West Bengal, where life is largely untouched by the acrimonious political arguments vitiating social media, but she is aware what’s going on in the Banaras Hindu University at the moment. Thanks to TV, she has got to know about the protests...
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