-Press Release by Right to Food Campaign The Right to Food Campaign demands justice for pregnant women and their infants. For more than four years, all Indian women except those working in government/public sector undertakings have been entitled by law to a maternity benefit of at least Rs. 6000, guaranteed under the National Food Security Act (NFSA, 2013). Yet, the government of India not only has failed to deliver this entitlement...
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Budget 2018: India's Healthcare System Needs More Money and an Urgent Overhaul -Dipa Sinha
-TheWire.in This is the last full budget of the present government and the last opportunity for it to demonstrate its commitment to India’s health and nutrition. Slow improvements in basic indicators of maternal and child mortality, double burden of communicable as well as non-communicable diseases, high out-of-pocket expenditure, a failing public sector and heavily commercialised private sector characterise the healthcare crisis in India. The year 2017 saw a number of incidents in the...
More »Tracing the economic roots of discontent among farmers -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times Farmers have experienced a growing mismatch between their production efforts and incomes under the Narendra Modi government. The coming union budget will have to find a balance between two contradictory FDs: farm-distress and fiscal discipline. The choice is not going to be an easy one. Ignoring farm-distress in the last full-fledged budget before elections could be politically suicidal. Meanwhile, there are at least two things that could make the government slip...
More »Labour reforms: Maharashtra plans to tweak proposal to ease factory closure norms -Vishwas Waghmode
-The Indian Express Will include clause to protect rights of labourers during closure of factories, says labour minister Mumbai: Three months after it proposed to ease norms for closure of factories, the Maharashtra government is now planning to revise its proposal to make it easier for factory owners with less than 150 employees to close down, instead of the 300 employees as proposed earlier. The government said it would also include a...
More »India Economic Survey 2018: Arvind Subramanian says economic revival underway; 4 key takeaways -Sushruth Sunder
-The Financial Express India Economic Survey 2018: Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that the Indian economy is showing robust signs of recovery and a series of major reforms undertaken over the past year will allow real GDP growth to reach 6.75 percent this fiscal and will rise to 7.0 to 7.5 percent in 2018-19. Addressing media in the press conference post release of the economic survey, CEA Arvind Subramanian noted...
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