-The Times of India Bihar is facing an acute shortage of doctors. Against a requirement of 15,000 doctors under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), only 4,500 doctors are in position. The problem has been compounded as against the retirement, deaths and migration to other places of 4,500 doctors of Bihar Health Services in the last 20 years, less than 1,000 doctors have been recruited during this period. The state government...
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Superweeds, superpests and superprofits by Vandana Shiva
New research from Navdanya and from the US Union of Concerned Scientists proves that Bt cotton yields are actually a third of what Monsanto claims. Genetic engineering is not going to help feed the world, writes Vandana Shiva, but it is going to harm public health and ecosystems We have been repeatedly told that genetically engineered (GE) crops will save the world. They will save the world by increasing yields and...
More »Playing with numbers, and lives by Brinda Karat
The Planning Commission, headed by the prime minister, has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court quantifying the daily poverty line for an adult as Rs 26 in rural, and Rs 32 in urban India. At today’s relentlessly increasing prices, Rs 26 will not get a manual worker even one nutritious meal a day — leave alone the 2,400 calories he is required to eat to enable him to work,...
More »Disaster team drain on army by Sujan Dutta
The army in Sikkim is fed up with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) because its personnel are not only unfit for rescue and relief work but also a drain on the military’s resources. Army officers are wary of speaking out in public on the difficulties of helping the NDRF — which they have been asked to by the home ministry — but it takes little for them to vent their...
More »CPI-M flays nuclear safety authority bill
-IANS The CPI-M on Wednesday denounced the proposed Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill and asked the government to "set up a genuinely independent nuclear safety regulatory authority". "By bringing such a bill (in parliament), the government has shown its utter disdain for the people's genuine fears about safety in the nuclear sector," the Communist Party of India-Marxist said in a statement. "The CPI-M demands that the government scrap this bill and...
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