-NDTV blog A huge part of India - northwest and central - has just experienced its hottest April on record. This is not just another heatwave. This is what scientists have been warning for decades, that global warming will lead to more frequent and more intense extreme weather events. And frequent spells of heatwaves. This time though something seems to have changed. A climate emergency has led to immediate repercussions outside the...
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Untangling the Labyrinth of Health Inequities in India -Indranil Mukhopadhyay
-Economic and Political Weekly Please click here to access the review of the book 'Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India', edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani, India: OUP, 2019; pp xiv + 418, Rs.1,195 (hardcover). The book review has been done by Dr. Indranil Mukhopadhyay, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Kindly click here to read more. ...
More »Healthcare Continues to Remain Inaccessible for Dalits and Adivasis, Says Study
-Newsclick.in The high Healthcare costs were expected to be addressed through the introduction of Health insurance by the Union government, but it covers less than 30% of hospital charges leaving a heavy financial burden on the poor. Health outcomes have remained grossly unequal, with India's dalits and adivasis living shorter lives of poorer quality, as per a recent paper published by Oxfam India. Private infrastructure now accounts for nearly 62% of India's...
More »India logs 3,303 Covid-19 cases, 39 fatalities
-PTI/ The Telegraph An increase of 701 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours India on Thursday reported 3,303 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its tally to 4,30,68,799, while the active cases increased to 16,980, according to Union Health ministry data. The daily cases crossed the 3,000-mark after 46 days. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 5,23,693 with 39 more fatalities, the data updated at...
More »A New Paradign for Indian Agriculture: From Agroindustry to Agroecology (2022) -Neelam Patel, Bruno Dorin, and Ranveer Nagaich
-NITI Aayog Working Paper, ISBN: 978-81-953811-7-3 Abstract - The importance of agriculture in an economy usually declines as it climbs the development ladder. Raising agriculture productivity has been known to be an important precursor. Labour productivity in agriculture can either be increased by higher land productivity or higher land availability per farmer and mechanisation. In India, however, the dramatic increase in land productivity through industrial farming has caused severe environmental damage and...
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