-Down to Earth Activists voice concern about some recommendations by panel The subject of ‘health’ must be transferred to the Concurrent List of the Indian Constitution from the State List, the high level group (HLG) formed for the health sector by the 15th Finance Commission has said. Since issues like medical education and family planning fall under the concurrent list, health also should, the panel said in a report submitted recently to...
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Gujarat: Farmers grow Rabi crops in 40 lakh hectares in state, cumin tops the list -
-The Indian Express Kutch has also registered record sowing of cumin seeds in 62,100 hectares out of the total 1.46 lakh hectare sown this Rabi season. Rajkot: In a record in recent years, farmers of Gujarat have sown Rabi crops in almost 40 lakh hectares, after receiving better-than-average monsoon rainfall in 2019. Moreover, farmers have sown cumin seeds in around five lakh hectare, the highest in the past six years, with Devbhumi...
More »'Open more private hospitals in next five years, make healthcare a fundamental right': Panel -Sumi Sukanya Dutta
-The New Indian Express The committee recommended that the number of MBBS and PG seats in the country be made equal by 2025, along with shifting healthcare from the State List to the concurrent list in the Constitution. NEW DELHI: A high-level panel on reforms in the health sector has come up with radical suggestions like shifting healthcare from the State List to the concurrent list in the Constitution, opening over 3,000-5,000...
More »Bengaluru Police demolishes makeshift houses of migrants as CAA-NRC debate rages on -Nolan Pinto
-IndiaToday.in According to sources, a police notice was sent to the owner of the site on January 11. The notice stated that in survey no. 35/2 in Kariyammana Agrahara near Bellandur Lake, there were illegal sheds and possible Bangladeshis present. Bengaluru: Lalitha hails from Raichur and Karanna from Koppal in Karnataka. They stand in front of us showing their Aadhaar Cards demanding to know why their makeshift homes have been demolished by...
More »Move to cash transfers will lead to savings, put agriculture on sustainable growth path -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express All such investments will go a long way to augment farmers’ incomes in a sustainable manner. Else, I am afraid, much of the talk in the Union budget for agri-reforms will remain mere rhetoric. Although the Union budget is basically an accounting exercise of revenues and expenditures for the coming year, economy-watchers anxiously wait for the finance minister to announce major economic reforms. In that sense, the budget of...
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