-Down to Earth The primary health centre (PHC) at Ajara block in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district would handle just eight childbirth cases a year till 2011. Today, it handles over 125 such cases in a year. The health centre became efficient because of a Central government scheme that empowers communities to monitor public health services. In 2010, the residents participated in a jan sunwai (public hearing) session, in which they told senior...
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Improving Healthcare Services at Reduced Prices -Meeta Rajivlochan
-Economic and Political Weekly The key to improving the quality of healthcare services in India and reducing costs at the same time can be found by enacting legislation which lays down minimum standards of patient care. In the absence of such standards and the reluctance of health insurance companies to standardise either price or quality, healthcare services continue to be expensive and of doubtful quality. Developing standards of patient care by...
More »Small and marginal farmers in distress -R Ramakumar and Aparajita Bakshi
-The Hans India It is official now. New data released by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) for 2013 show that the agrarian distress in rural India is continuing, and even intensifying for small and marginal farmers. In the last decade, there has been much talk on inclusive growth, revival of growth rates in agriculture, higher public investment in agriculture and the doubling of agricultural credit. Yet, the new data show...
More »More than 50% of farm households in debt -Rukmini S
-The Hindu NSSO survey across 35000 family units Nearly 90 per cent of India's farmers have less than two hectares of land, according to the most extensive survey of farm households to date conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The survey says the average farm household makes less than Rs. 6,500 a month from all sources of income. The NSSO released the findings from its 70th Situation of Agricultural Households in...
More »Centre Asked to Pay Compensation to Mother of Imphal Woman Shot by Assam Rifles -A Vaidyanathan and Anindita Sanyal
-NDTV New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ordered the Centre to pay a compensation of Rs. 10 lakh to the mother of Thangjam Manorama, a woman shot brutally to death by soldiers of the 17 Assam Rifles in 2004. The NHRC has also recommended that Rs. 10 lakh be paid to the family of Manorama. The death of the 34-year-old woman was followed by vociferous protests in the state that...
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