-Down to Earth This is because agriculture in India is largely dependent on chemicals including pesticides and their usage has a huge impact on the Health of humans, animals, bio-diversity and the environment Pesticides are regulated in India through the Insecticides Act, 1968 and Insecticides Rules, 1971. The experience in administering this Act over the last five decades has exposed certain gaps which spurred the need to propose a new law. The Pesticide...
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How Bangladesh is outperforming India, writes Karan Thapar
-Hindustan Times Be it growth, enhanced investment, life expectancy, literacy, and Health, Bangladesh is doing well Frankly, I blame Henry Kissinger. Way back in the 1970s, he called Bangladesh “an international basket case”. At the time, no doubt, it was. Television images of the frequent devastating floods it suffered confirmed this characterisation. So the description stuck. Today, Bangladesh is a different country. The world may be slow in changing its opinion —...
More »India's population: 1.37 billion and not counting -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth India, like the rest of the world, is intensely debating population explosion. But while countries are struggling to keep their numbers at replacement level, India is on the right path towards stabilising population sooner than expected. So what's the discussion all about? Be it a political meeting, a hot TV debate or just a Healthy tea-time chat, the topic would most often veer around population. That was about...
More »A mix Indian Health care can do without -Soham D Bhaduri
-The Hindu Ayushman Bharat entails diverting limited resources towards wasteful areas, ignoring productive fields in public Health The United States has one of the most prodigal Health systems, but this does not help the U.S. with the well-known reality that it is infamously poor-performing. And so does the fact that it is also one of the most intricate of Health systems across the globe. Over a century, U.S. Health care has seen numerous...
More »Economic Survey: Focus on wealth of big business than wealth and Health of nation -Surajit Das
-Newsclick.in The Economic Survey 2019-20 indicates that the government’s broad policy direction will remain the same -- of neglecting the social sector and serving the interests of the big businesses. This year’s Economic Survey begins with emphasising the importance of wealth of nations (inspired by Adam Smith) and depicts long-term contributions of the US, China, India and various other countries in world GDP (gross domestic product). The shares of China and India...
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