'Women in urban slums need a basket of healthcare serviCES to meet their needs' As the Centre mulls a national urban health mission on the lines of the existing National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), a study indicates that the mission may need some tweaking to deliver healthcare serviCES to the urban poor. While women groups and accredited social health activists (ASHAs) have a big role to play in reducing maternal and...
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Rapid privatisation has worsened health care serviCES in poor and middle-income nations: study-Salma Rehman
-Down to Earth But public sector, too. needs quality improvement, say researchers from University of California What should cash strapped low- and middle-income countries do to improve acCESs to health care? Should they strengthen the public health sector or the private sector? The question remains unresolved, but often funds are redirected from the public exchequer to the private health sector, even though, there is not enough data to guide policy. Recently, the...
More »Govt plans to make you pay highway toll forever-Dipak Kumar Dash
Highway users should brace for paying toll even after the private road developer or the government recovers the capital investment with the interest. A new plan finalized by the government has proposed that road users would pay user charge for "efficient" operation and maintenance of the highway stretches in perpetuity. Under the new model, the highways ministry wants to levy a fee for projects taken up under short-term operation-maintenance-transfer (OMT) contracts...
More »Donations made by President under RTI: Delhi high court-Abhinav Garg
-The Times of India The new occupant of Rashtrapati Bhavan will have to be more transparent in making donations. For, the Delhi high court on Thursday, in a significant ruling, held that under the Right to Information Act, every citizen is entitled to know the donations given by the President of India, as these are made out of public funds. "Every citizen is entitled to know as to how the money, which is...
More »Karnataka govt to look into cut in CESs on petrol priCES
-PTI Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today said his government would look into the possibilities of reducing CESs on petrol after the June 11 biennial elections to the state Legislative Council. "I will look into the possibilities of reducing CESs on petrol soon after the elections to the legislative council. For now, I can't comment on the issue due to model code of conduct," he told reporters. The statement comes in the...
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