-The Economic Times Chhattisgarh is set to become the first state to extend health insurance cover to all its unorganised sector workers, a step that will not only make healthcare accessible to all but also set a model for other states to follow. The state has offered to pay the insurance premium from October 1 for all those not covered under the Centre's flagship health insurance scheme-the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY)....
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Cutting fuel subsidy can cause 2.6% spike in inflation: RBI chief D Subbarao
-The Economic Times Reserve Bank of India Governor D Subbarao has said the proposed elimination of fuel subsidy can lead to a massive 2.6% spike in inflation, an assessment that makes it even more difficult for the government to bite the bullet. While a hike in diesel and cooking gas prices may be long overdue, the government is hard-pressed to contain inflation ahead of crucial assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh...
More »Himachalis Rich But State Under Debt
-PTI The bank deposits of Himachalis stood at about Rs 50,000 crore but the state is under huge debt, according to a state Finance Ministry official. The percentage of people keen on increasing their savings was 75 per cent in the state while it was 33 per cent in the country, the official said. The increase in income of farmers from horticulture, off season vegetables, milk, animal husbandry and poly houses and fat...
More »US politicians must regulate Finance to tackle the drought and food-price crisis-Raj Patel
-The Guardian US leaders worked hard to tackle the 1930s drought and food crisis. Today they are supine, offering the hungry only prayers If you're wondering whether the US drought will create a global food crisis, the answer's easy. It's yes, because there's a food crisis already. The latest year for which we have figures is 2010, when 925 million people were declared malnourished. Soon after the number was announced, the World...
More »TB services hit in Manipur as contract employees go on strike-Iboyaima Laithangbam
-The Hindu They are protesting salary deduction Malaria and TB treatment is seriously affected in Manipur following a strike by contractual employees. The worst hit are the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course, the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) and sputum microscopy programmes. T. Lenindro, general secretary of the All Manipur RNTCP Contractual Workers’ Welfare Union, toldThe Hindu that though the contractual appointment of 116 employees of the RNTCP from March 2012 to...
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