-DailyMail.co.uk Your friendly neighbourhood NGO worker may have been crying themselves hoarse for years over social ills, but there is a high chance that the organisation he or she represents lacks financial transparency. Nearly 25 lakh NGOs across the country, most of whom receive funds worth crores of rupees from the government and abroad, came under the Supreme Court's scrutiny on Monday after the CBI submitted that only 10 per cent of...
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Universal healthcare: the affordable dream -Amartya Sen
-The Guardian Universal healthcare is often presented as an idealistic Goal that remains out of reach for all but the richest nations. That's not the case, writes Amartya Sen. Look at what has been achieved in Rwanda, Thailand and Bangladesh Twenty-five hundred years ago, the young Gautama Buddha left his princely home, in the foothills of the Himalayas, in a state of agitation and agony. What was he so distressed about?...
More »Huge disparity found in livestock census and NSSO data -Jitendra
-Down to Earth This has happened in past surveys also, say experts The figures in the 19th livestock census report and the recently released survey report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) don't tally. While the census report that was released this September shows that number of sheep and Goats stood at 200 million in the 2012-13, the 70th round of National Sample Survey showed a huge decline in their number...
More »Centre moots health as a fundamental right -Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu The policy also makes denial of health care an offence The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has suggested making health a fundamental right, similar to education. This key proposal in the draft National Health Policy, 2015, suggests making denial of health an offence. Thirteen years after the previous health policy, the draft, now in the public domain for stakeholders' suggestions and comments, has addressed the issues of universal...
More »To get water to every farm, integrate rural job scheme with new irrigation programme: PM
-The Hindu Business Line Departments, Ministries asked to fast-track the scheme New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for integration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) with the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana. This will help in creating more irrigation assets, he said. A day after clearing changes in the Land Acquisition Act, Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Tuesday on the irrigation scheme and asked the Departments...
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