The labour ministry has asked the Prime Minister's Office to direct the Planning Commission to allocate sufficient resources for the UPA government's flagship health insurance scheme for the poor in fiscal 2012-13 so that patients are not refused admission by hospitals. The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), that guarantees 30,000 annual health insurance to a family of five, ran into trouble earlier this year due to shortage of funds. In a letter...
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Ministries tussle to teach tiny tots by Basant Kumar Mohanty
Two central ministries have locked horns over the country’s youngest students, the tug-of-war for the tiny tots unfolding after a plan to bring pre-school education under the Right to Education Act. While the human resource development ministry wants to include pre-primary education under the act, which provides for free and compulsory education to children between six and 14, the women and child development department says education and childcare shouldn’t be segregated...
More »Govt converges MPLAD & MGNREGA to create more durable assets
-PTI The government on Monday announced convergence of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme with the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA for creating more durable assets in the country. "Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister Srikant Kumar Jena has approved convergence of MPLAD scheme with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)," an official statement said here. According to the statement, it was done after government received representations to converge...
More »Nabard starts infra lending to diversify by Atmadip Ray
The National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development, or Nabard, has started lending directly to infrastructure projects out of its own resources for the first time in 30 years, in an attempt to diversify its activities and make itself relevant at a time when the dynamics of the rural market are changing. Essentially a refinance bank till recently, Nabard has created a Rs 1,000-crore special window for lending to build core...
More »NRHM scam: CAG finds anomalies in spending of about Rs 5,000cr
-PTI The CAG probing the NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh has found anomalies in spending of around Rs 5,000 crore under the scheme in about two dozen districts of the state. The state health department failed to give proper details of spendings worth around Rs 5,000 crore of the Rs 8,657 crore given to the state, \highly placed sources said. The Comptroller and Auditor General submitted a report on its findings to the...
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