-The Times of India NEW delhi: With just a day to go before the roll out of goods and services tax (GST) in India from July 1, the country's drug industry fears that there may be a temporary shortage of medicines as many traders and chemists are yet to comply with the norms. Though the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists, which represents over 8 lakh chemists, has assured the government...
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Public anger over unemployment a big challenge for Modi govt -Sanjay Kumar and Pranav Gupta
-Livemint.com A CSDS survey shows that the public perception about job growth is worse than what it was during the second term of the UPA government Negative perception about jobs could become the Achilles heel of the Narendra Modi-led Union government, a recent survey conducted by research group Lokniti at the New delhi-based Centre for Developing Societies (CSDS) seems to suggest. The “Mood of the Nation” survey of more than 11,000 respondents across...
More »Flawed drug price rules fleeced patients, helped hospitals -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New delhi: India's drug pricing rules allow companies to inflate the maximum retail prices of medicines, including life-saving drugs, costing patients thousands of additional rupees while offering slices of the profits to stockists, chemists, and hospitals. Quotations received by hospitals from drug companies' representatives offering discounts on maximum retail prices (MRPs) of medicines provide what some doctors and patients' rights advocates say is fresh evidence for excessive profiteering in India's...
More »It's time to give priority to women's work participation
MG Road is seldom considered as a safe place for working women who travel for work to either Gurgaon or delhi. Almost everyday untoward incidents related to molestation, sexual harassment, kidnapping or rape that occur here are reported in various NCR-based newspapers. Clearly, safety of women office-goers and female workers is one of the major determinants of their (low) labour force participation, even in urban locations like Gurgaon or delhi....
More »Mandsaur, the farmers' story -Shiv Visvanathan
-The Hindu Information has not graduated to storytelling to dent the regime’s idea of agricultural policy I remember years ago the delhi School of Economics had many great scholars visit the campus. They talked passionately and knowledgeably not just about the subject but about knowledge as a vocation. One of the most memorable of these performances was by Teodor Shanin, the economic historian who also edited Peasants and Peasant Societies. He talked...
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