-Livemint.com The new subscribers to EPFO likely represent formalization of a section of the regular workforce RATher than new additions to it New Delhi: Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the jobs debate in India has heated up once again. Spokespersons of the National DemocRATic Alliance (NDA) claim the Indian economy has created an unprecedented number of jobs over the past couple of years. The opposition as well as some independent...
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Government 'Freezes' Health Insurance RATes, Ignores Private Hospitals' Protests -Anoo Bhuyan
-TheWire.in The government has fixed the insurance reimbursements for 1,354 medical procedures under its massive new scheme. They say they won’t revise this any further. New Delhi: Despite protests from the private health sector, that the government’s reimbursements to them under the massive new health insurance scheme are too low, the government has “frozen” these RATes and is unlikely to change them. “The package RATes are now frozen,” said health secretary Preeti Sudan. Dinesh...
More »The Age of Surplus -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express We have, indeed, entered a regime of “permanent surpluses” in most crops — a reality our policymakers are unable to grasp, stuck as they are in the era of the Essential Commodities Act. If there is one thing that has changed in Indian agriculture in recent times, it is supply response — the ability of farmers to increase production when prices go up. Traditionally, the supply curve in most...
More »Agri Distress Deepens as Crop Prices Crash -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Over the past three years, prices of farm produce have gone down, pushing farmers into deeper crisis but the govt. has no solution. It is perhaps a symbol of our times, and this govt.’s alienation from the people, that it is totally unconcerned about crashing farm produce prices even though the Prime Minister and his colleagues go on harping on their commitment to double farmers’ incomes. Here is what has happened...
More »Maternal mortality RATio is falling but more effort required to catch up with China
The country's maternal mortality RATio (MMRATio) exceeds that of China by a huge margin, which not only indicates the poor status of women in our society but also the miserable functioning of health system, among other things. However, there is some good news around the corner to cheer about. Recently released data by the Sample RegistRATion System (SRS) bulletin indicates that for the country as a whole the MMRATio has...
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