-Scroll.in A scheme to give India’s poor people free power connections has been in operation since 2005. But the capacity to provide 24x7 power is still a dream. On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the “Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana” or the Saubhagya scheme to provide electricity connections to Indians who do not have them. “The government will connect each house, whether it is in village, a city or...
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What crop insurance? India's farmers have no clue about the covers Centre doles out for them
-The Economic Times Despite the government talking so much about the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana benefiting India's farmers, most of them have not even heard of any crop insurance scheme by the Centre. About 67% of the 6,000 farmers surveyed by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had absolutely no idea about government-run crop insurance schemes. CAG's report dealt with crop insurance schemes from 2011 to 2015, including Prime Minister...
More »Slowing population growth: Why families get smaller in size with better access to healthcare -Sanchita Sharma
-Hindustan Times It’s a paradoxical fact. Families become smaller as better nutrition, vaccination and healthcare ensure couples lose fewer children to malnutrition and infections, such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, sepsis and tuberculosis India’s most comprehensive report card on health released earlier this year shows India’s total fertility rate (TFR) has dropped from an average of 2.7 children per women in 2006 to 2.2 a decade later. Around two in three states that are...
More »Housing for all: There's a lot to be built -Shreya Deb
-The Hindu Business Line The Government must clear policy bottlenecks for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana to meet its ambitious target Amidst the government’s celebrations on completing three years in office, one flagship scheme remains a massive — and challenging — opportunity: Housing for all by 2022. The groundbreaking, affordable housing initiative backing this promise, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), plans to provide homes to 18 million households in urban India...
More »How much will a cow cess of Re.1 on petrol generate? -Ragini Bhuyan and Tadit Kundu
-Livemint.com A cow cess of even Re.1 per litre of petrol will be enough to generate funds that will exceed the entire annual budgets of several Union ministries About two weeks ago, Subramanian Swamy, a Rajya Sabha member from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called for a cow cess of Re1 on petrol to fund gaushalas or cow shelters across the country. Swamy made the comment towards the end of his speech...
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