-Economic and Political Weekly The importance of hand-washing in personal and public hygiene has evolved over the centuries. While the market with its countless number of soaps and hand-wash products for personal hygiene with the accompanying advertising has created a false sense of security, it is community hygiene implemented through public health measures that is really effective in the battle against disease. Lekha D Bhat (lekhabhatd@gmail.com) teaches at the Department of Social...
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Rural Distress: Back-to-back drought adds to the woes -Sahil Makkar, Sanjeeb Mukherjee & Nirmalya Behera
-Business Standard The well-irrigated states of Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, western Uttar Pradesh and coastal states such as Odisha are, for the first time, feeling the effects of a poor monsoon Bhopal/ New Delhi/ Bhubaneshwar: Farmers are faced with a multitude of problems. Cotton and basmati rice growers in Punjab and sugarcane farmers in west UP are under stress due to the non-payment of insurance and state compensation. Growers in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh,...
More »Grin and bear it: India’s ‘pulse problem' does not have an immediate solution -Dinesh Unnikrishnan
-FirstPost.com Ram Naresh, who runs a small tea-snacks shop in Navi Mumbai isn’t really keen to discuss politics. “After all, what difference does it make to me? No matter who rules, prices keep going up,” Naresh says. Naresh, hails from a rural village in Uttar Pradesh, is clearly upset with the way prices of Dal and Onion has gone up of late. He gets to save a little from his daily earnings...
More »Drought distress: Winter of discontent for Madhya Pradesh farmers -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express Extended dry spell hits rabi plantings on top of failed kharif crop Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh, an agricultural success story of the past decade, is bracing itself for a rough time this year, with deficient rains resulting in the failure of the kharif crop and also putting a question market over sowing in the ongoing rabi season. The state, in recent times, had emerged as the country’s second largest contributor of...
More »Health scheme beneficiaries pay from own pockets -Mihika Basu
-The Indian Express TISS report maps pitfalls in Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana Mumbai: OVER three-fifths or 63 per cent beneficiaries of the state government’s Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (RGJAY) made out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for services after admission to hospitals, and a significantly higher proportion of patients from Below Poverty Line (BPL) families (88.23 per cent) reported paying for diagnostics, medications, or consumables, according to a report by the Tata...
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