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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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Finances will never be a problem for the National Health Protection Scheme: Health minister JP Nadda

-PTI NEW DELHI: Seeking to allay concerns about the funding of the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) announced in the Budget, Union health minister JP Nadda on Friday assured that finances will never be a problem for the scheme. The Union minister said the Centre was working out the minute details of the programme. Touted to be the world's largest government-funded healthcare programme, the scheme is aimed at benefiting 10 crore poor...

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Budget 2018: India's Healthcare System Needs More Money and an Urgent Overhaul -Dipa Sinha

-TheWire.in This is the last full budget of the present government and the last opportunity for it to demonstrate its commitment to India’s health and nutrition. Slow improvements in basic indicators of maternal and child mortality, double burden of communicable as well as non-communicable diseases, high out-of-pocket expenditure, a failing public sector and heavily commercialised private sector characterise the healthcare crisis in India. The year 2017 saw a number of incidents in the...

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'Plastic is poor man's friend': Padma Shri winner Rajagopalan Vasudevan uses waste to build roads -Vinita Govindarajan

-Scroll.in The ‘Plastic Man of India’ has found a way to reuse plastic waste and to make durable roads. A 73-year-old retired chemistry professor from the Thiagarajar Engineering College in Madurai was on Thursday named as one of the 73 recipients of the Padma Shri, the government’s fourth highest civilian honour. Rajagopalan Vasudevan is known as the “Plastic Man of India” for devising an innovative way of disposing of plastic waste...

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A misleading story of job creation -Praveen Chakravarty & Jairam Ramesh

-The Hindu India does not create 55 lakh new jobs every year, as claimed by a new report A recent research report titled “Towards a Payroll Reporting in India” authored by the Group Chief Economic Adviser of the State Bank of India and a professor from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore has caught the media’s and the Prime Minister’s fancy. Ostensibly, the main objective of the report was to make a...

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