-Livemint.com Much of the increased spending will go towards preventive aspects of healthcare, with the health ministry by itself not gaining much even after the pandemic. India needs to do a whole lot more to strengthen its health infrastructure In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 137% increase in allocations on “health and well-being" for 2021-22, to ₹2.24 trillion. Embedded in that declaration was a definitional change: it also...
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Bare necessities gap between States has narrowed since 2012: Economic Survey
-The Hindu States such as Kerala, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat had the highest access to the bare necessities while it was the lowest in Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tripura. Poorer States have reduced the gap with rich States when it comes to in providing their citizens with access to the basics of daily life — housing, Water, power, sanitation, cooking gas — according to a new ‘Bare Necessities Index’ (BNI) in...
More »Create protocols and decommission the ageing large dams speedily, recommends latest UNU-INWEH study
Large dams that cause environmental degradation and large-scale displacement, among other things, have been opposed in India by civil society organisations (CSOs), such as Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), National Alliance of People's Movement (NAPM) and People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). A recently published study by the United Nations University's Canada-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health along with other partner organisations reveals that tens of thousands of existing large...
More »The Problem with International Migration from India -Gian Singh
-TheCitizen.in The losses outweigh the gains A report released on January 15 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs estimates that India has the highest number of international migrants in the world. It found that last year 18 million Indians were living abroad, followed by Mexico 11 million, Russia 11 million, China 10 million, and Syria 8 million. It estimates that 10 million or 1 crore Indians emigrated abroad...
More »Hyderabad sees rise in groundWater levels -Siddharth Rao
-TelanganaToday.in Officials attribute this to copious rainfall and rainWater harvesting in the city Hyderabad: The year 2020 might not be one that everyone wants to remember. But for those watching the groundWater tables of Hyderabad, the Water Year of 2020-2021 has been one of a steady, encouraging rise. In the Hyderabad division, the mean groundWater level rose from 5.37 metres below ground level (mbgl) in December 2019 to 3.48 mbgl in December 2020,...
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