-Foundation for Agrarian Studies The project report titled “Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20,” has been released in April, 2022. The report has been prepared by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies with the support of Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, New Delhi. In 2021, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies conducted a research project to analyse the trends in public spending on agriculture in India for the most recent decade (2010-11 to...
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‘Star reporter with no income’: What Pawan Jaiswal’s death tells us about the state of rural reporters -Tanishka Sodhi
-Newslaundry.com Journalism doesn’t pay their bills, they have little or no institutional support and rely on commissions from ‘finding ads’ for papers. In his final news report, Pawan Jaiswal visited Rampur Dhabahi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur in August 2021, where he asked a young woman about her dreams. The woman, Pinki, had been the subject of an Academy Award winning documentary 13 years ago, on how corrective surgery for her cleft lip...
More »Govt Report Says PHCs Have Surplus doctors – But That’s Not the Full Story -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * According to the Union health ministry’s new Rural Health Statistics report, for 2020-2021, primary health centres have a surplus of doctors. * This could be true – although there are doubts about whether the report included the number of doctors on transitory, ad hoc appointments as well. * The report fails to capture the qualitative aspects of doctors’ availability at PHCs, including a hidden problem motivated by the absence of sufficient...
More »Food fascism violates our right to food and nutrition, state eminent citizens
-Statement issued by Concerned Citizens, doctors, Nutritionists, Parents, Advocates and Researchers dated 5th May, 2022 Amidst growing attacks on meat sellers and restaurant owners who sell non-vegetarian food, a statement has been issued by concerned citizens, and civil society groups. The statement depicts how such attacks or bans against non-vegetarian food would impact the right to food as well as the nutritional status of the disadvantaged sections of the society and the undernourished...
More »Health Stack is harder to roll out than Aadhaar: RS Sharma -Shouvik Das
-Livemint.com Aadhaar has only two parties—the government and citizens, but ABDM involves multiple entities NEW DELHI: Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), which seeks to build a technology backbone for digital health infrastructure in India, is “much more difficult" to build than Aadhaar, according to Ram Sewak Sharma, chief executive of the National Health Authority (NHA). Speaking at the Mint AI Summit 2022 held in New Delhi on 29 April, Sharma explained that while...
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