-Macroscan.org/ The Hindu Business Line Despite the government's efforts to digitise the Indian economy forcibly, non-cash forms of payment appear to have declined as more currency has been made available to the public. This points to major flaws in the government's coercive approach and the underlying RATionale for cashlessness. Please click here to read more. * This article was originally published in the Business Line on April 24, 2017. ...
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Poor sanitation and unsafe water are killing children in India -Prachi Salve
-Scroll.in/ IndiaSpend.com Uttar Pradesh tops the list of under-five mortality. Despite recently revealed improvements, primitive sanitation is killing, retarding the growth or leaving susceptible to disease millions of Indian children, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of the latest available national health data. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Chhattisgarh had India’s highest under-five mortality, higher stunting (low height-for-age) RATes and higher prevalence of diarrhoea due to lack of “improved sanitation” –...
More »Generic medicines in a digital age -Dinesh S Thakur & Prashant Reddy T
-The Hindu We need a legal mechanism to ensure that all generics are of the same standard as the innovator product The Prime Minister’s recent announcement on making it mandatory for doctors to prescribe only the generic name, and not brand name of a drug, has led to a flutter. If enacted, the move will make it illegal for Indian doctors to write out a prescription for the trademark of the drug,...
More »India's polity has shifted from hope to fear, and PM Modi knows it -Aman Sethi
-Hindustan Times The animating impulse of Indian politics, pundits of all stripes insist, is youthful aspiRATion: fearless young people throwing off the shackles of caste and class to Whatsapp their way to what the Prime Minister likes to call “vikas”. Parties like the BhaRATiya Janta Party understand this, the argument goes, and are handsomely rewarded; the opposition doesn’t, and is doomed to failure. But a recent CSDS-KAS survey paints a RATher different picture:...
More »NREGA workers get lowest wage hike ever, Re 1 in some states -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express In some states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the increase in daily wages under MGNREGA from April 1 is just Re 1. IN THE lowest wage hike under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme, the Centre has increased wages by an average of just 2.7 per cent this financial year. In some states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the increase in daily...
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