-The Hindu The reduction of out-of-pocket expenditure that the NHA highlights is essentially due to a decline in utilisation of Care Low public spending on health in India has meant that people depend heavily on their own means to access health Care. It causes rich-poor, rural-urban, gender and caste-based divides in access to health Care, pushes people to poverty, and forces them to incur debt or sell assets. As a result, our...

-Scroll.in According to the residents of Oting village, joining the army was an ‘honourable job’. Now, they want the army to leave the area. On November 25, Hokup Konyak, a 38-year-old coal miner, married Monglong Konyak. The wedding was held in the hahshahapang, or village square, in Oting in Nagaland’s Mon district. Everyone in the village attended. Eleven days later, his funeral was held in the same village square. “He was buried just...

-The Telegraph The study, conducted throughout Bengal in September this year, found that the total number of children suffering from malnutrition stood at 6.70 lakh A recent survey by the women and child development department has revealed that the number of children suffering from malnutrition has increased twofold during the closure of ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme) centres following Covid-19, prompting the Bengal government to take urgent measures to ensure food supply...

-Newsclick.in The Narendra Modi government has Carried the practice of making low budgetary allocations for MGNREGS to its limit. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGS was introduced by the United Progressive Alliance-I government despite opposition from the neo-liberal lobby within it, owing inter alia to the active intervention of the Left, which was supporting that government from outside. The scheme was restrictive from the beginning: it promised a maximum...

-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 3rd December, 2021 In its press release dated 3 December, 2021, the Right to Food Campaign welcomes the Central Government's decision to extend Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), and reiterates the demands for increasing quota and universalisation of PDS. Please click here to access the press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 3rd December, 2021.  For further information,...