-The Hindu Business Line Questioning the kind of growth model pursued by the Government, civil society activists on Saturday called for a wider public debate on the reported move to curtail social sector spending on schemes such as the rural job guarantee scheme, MGNREGA, and for the HIV affected. "Considering the fact that the Government is forecasting a 5.3 per cent growth rate for this year, the social sector cuts in Budget...
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Anand Grover, Senior advocate and former UN special rapporteur on the right to health speaks to Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India India's intellectual property (IP) law has been hailed as one of the most progressive for safeguarding public interest, and several nations like Argentina, the Philippines and Brazil are looking to learn from it. Senior advocate and former UN special rapporteur on the right to health Anand Grover talks to Rema Nagarajan about the pressure the country is facing to change its IP laws, primarily from the US. *...
More »Activists and concerned citizens oppose budget cuts in social sector
-Press Release from Centre for Budget Analysis (CBGA) and Jan Awaaz New Delhi, 29 November 2014: There have been a number of media reports recently around possible cuts in Union Budget allocations for the current fiscal 2014-15 in case of social sector programmes, i.e. reductions in allocations in the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2014-15 as compared to the Budget Estimates (BE) that were made in July this year. This issue deserves...
More »Tripura CM leads protest against shrinking NREGA at Jantar Mantar
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A cross-section of political leaders, activists and academics came together on Wednesday at JantarMantar against what they call NarendraModi government's attempt to dilute Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme. Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar, the first CM to lead a dharna against the dilution of MGNREGS, said his state is facing a massive cut in funds from the Centre. He said it has come down...
More »Not curtailing rural job scheme: Government
-IANS New Delhi: The government is not trying to curtail MNREGA and the number of blocks under the act have not been reduced, Rural Development Minister Birender Singh told parliament Thursday. The minister was responding to a calling attention motion in the Rajya Sabha by Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja and others, criticising the move of the government to introduce changes in the rural employment scheme by reducing the...
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