-The Indian Express Farmers can install solar panels on their fields that can generate income in addition to regular crop agriculture. Of its several new initiatives, the Narendra Modi government has set out at least two very ambitious targets, which are also quantifiable. One is achieving 100 giga-watts (GW) of solar power generation capacity by the year 2022. The other is doubling farmers’ income — presumably in real terms — also by 2022,...
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Lounges turn wards as fever patients pour into Delhi Hospitals -Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The dengue-chikungunya crisis is severely straining health services in the capital. Top public and private Hospitals, flooded with patients, have turned waiting areas, patient lounges and non-emergency wards into fever wards. But the influx of patients is so high that not everyone is being admitted. As per municipal data, 487 dengue and 444 chikungunya cases have been recorded this year. However, major public and private Hospitals...
More »Delhi stung by 412 cases of chikungunya in a week -Anonna Dutt
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: More than 400 cases of chikungunya were recorded in Delhi in the past week, health officials said on Monday, as the mosquito-borne disease that causes debilitating joint pain threatened to replace dengue as the Capital’s most widespread monsoon ailment. Officials said 412 new cases of chikungunya were reported last week, taking the total this year to 432. The same period saw 176 new dengue cases, taking the number...
More »Health in India: Where the money comes from and where it goes? -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu It has long been argued that government spending on health should increase to 2.5 per cent of GDP. National Health Accounts (NHA) monitors the flow of resources in a country’s health system and provides detailed data on health finances. The NHA estimates for India for the financial year 2013-14 were published earlier this week, after a long void of almost a decade. The previous estimates were for the year 2004-05. In...
More »450 private Hospitals on strike in Jaipur
-The Times of India JAIPUR: A day after Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) officials sealed Khandka Hospital here over commercial activity in a residential area, around 450 private Hospitals in the city went on an indefinite strike terming the action as "repressive". The Hospitals stopped functioning at around 4.30 pm on Saturday for an indefinite period and pasted notices mentioning, "This hospital is on indefinite strike. No consultation and admission of patients will...
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