-The Hindu Business Line A flexible approach to collateral will improve access to bank funding. Red tapism too is a perennial concern If the Make in India campaign has to be successful and help many in our country, we need to focus on enabling small units to function and contribute. A major problem small and medium units face is that of finance. Banks and financial institutions are always very wary of assisting them...
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Band-aid solutions for health problems -Shamika Ravi & Rahul Ahluwalia
-The Hindu The Draft National Health Policy 2015 fails to tackle head-on the core problem of the Indian health system: its management, administration and overall governance structure The Draft National Health Policy of 2015 released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, is a comprehensive document. So comprehensive, in fact, that it says too little by saying too much. A National Heath Policy is commonly read as a...
More »Evidence matters to policymaking -Howard White & Radhika Menon
-The Hindu The challenge for the Modi government is to evaluate what works in development programming before making large spending decisions Governments in India have always launched big-ticket social development programmes with ambitious goals. The Narendra Modi government is no exception. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan aims to make India open defecation-free by 2019. The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana's financial inclusion programme set a target of opening 10 crore Bank Accounts by January...
More »Amendments to anti-graft law soft on private sector, fall short of UN convention -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The NDA government, which came riding on a huge anti-corruption wave wiping out Congress last year, has dropped crucial amendments to the Prevention of Corruption Act that would have ensured India ratifying the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). Sources said the government has not considered incorporating Article 12 and 16 of the UNCAC in the proposed amendments to the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act likely to...
More »Human Rights Commission steps in to resolve farmer suicide issue -Sudhir Suryawanshi
-DNA After the dna report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRM) has asked Maharashtra government to address the farmers issues and look after the compensations package to farmers as well. After the dna report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRM) has asked Maharashtra government to address the farmers issues and look after the compensations package to farmers as well. Dna had reported on January 30 that the desperate farmers are selling their...
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