-Press note by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated August 4, 2022 On the final day of the 3-day dharna, despite heavy rains, hundreds of mazdoors from 15 states stayed on at Jantar Mantar to continue raising their voices. Currently, 14 states are running a negative balance on NREGA funds, and 64 percent of the budget for this financial has already been spent. More than Rs. 6800 crores are due in wages to...
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Reaping the demographic dividend -Uday Balakrishnan
-The Hindu India needs to invest in quality school and higher education as well as healthcare The UN report, World Population Prospects 2022, forecasts that the world’s population will touch eight billion this year and rise to 9.8 billion in 2050. What is of immediate interest to India is that its population will surpass China’s by 2023 and continue to surge. A long-time critic of China’s population policy and author of Big Country...
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-IndiaToday.in According to sources in the health ministry, surveillance will be increased for people coming in from countries where monkeypox has become prevalent. The Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday ordered the administration to reserve beds for monkeypox in Covid-designated hospitals across the state. Although no monkeypox case has been reported in the state so far. The officials in all hospitals have been asked to adhere to the Centre's guidelines. The decision comes on the day...
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-IndiaSpend.com The United Nations projects that India's total population will surpass China's much sooner than expected, but even so, data show that India's population is actually declining, says Poonam Muttreja of the Population Foundation of India Mumbai: "What could women do if they wanted fewer children? They were opting for, amongst other things, abortion," says Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India. "Abortion rates as a proxy for contraception...
More »Nobody approved India's 'Precautionary' doses -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * Neither the CDSCO nor the national advisory group on immunisation was taken into confidence before Prime Minister Modi announced the rollout of booster doses. * In reply to a series of RTI applications by The Wire Science, the PMO and the health ministry refused to divulge details of the government’s decision-making. * One reply indicated that the government had misled the Supreme Court about the availability of the minutes of an...
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