-The Indian Express The focus in the Union Budget on tertiary Healthcare at the cost of primary and secondary Healthcare is flawed. A publicly-financed Health insurance scheme is no substitute If the past three Union budgets were any indication, this budget’s approach to the Health sector should not have surprised anyone. The prescription in the National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 to increase the government’s (Centre and the states together) Health expenditure from the...
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Why the Poor Will Not Be the True Beneficiaries of the 'World's Largest Health Programme' -Dipa Sinha
-TheWire.in While the government claims it “will bring Healthcare system closer to the homes of people,” it hopes to do this through the private sector, not by strengthening the public Health system. Health is being hailed as the biggest winner of Budget 2018, but a cursory look at the numbers shows that there is nothing to celebrate as far as the Health budget is concerned. In fact, the Budget this year once...
More »Punjab industry gives thumbs down to Arun Jaitley's Union Budget -Mohammad Ghazali
-Hindustan Times The industry termed it a populist budget to reap electoral gains. Ludhiana: The industry in Ludhiana found nothing to cheer about in the Union Budget presented by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday. Industrialists and traders from across the city, often called the Manchester of India, were expecting tax relief and sops for micro, small and medium enterprises. President of the Federation of Industrial and Commercial Organization Gurmeet Singh Kulhar said...
More »Union budget shows "no concern" for hunger, malnutrition, rural distress, reduces maternal benefit allocation
-Counterview.net Calling the 2018-19 Union budget "highly disappointing", the top advocacy group, Right to Food Campaign (RFC), in a comprehensive analysis, has said, it has "miserably failed to respond to the present situation of rural distress and mass unemployment", adding, "Despite a spate of starvation deaths in different parts of the country, the budget makes no mention of hunger or malnutrition." Thus, RFC says, "There was some hope that the budget would...
More »Farmer Sutra: Jaitley focuses on the rural sector
-The Hindu In a pre-election Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley serves up a mix of populism and prudence With a clear eye on the Lok Sabha election, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley pulled out all the stops in the Narendra Modi government’s last full Budget to promise a better deal for farmers, boost the rural economy and make the poor less vulnerable to Health exigencies. Responding to the distress in the agriculture sector...
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