-The Times of India The National Pharmaceutical PRIcing Authority on Monday revised the PRIce of drug eluting stents (DES) downwards by about Rs 2,300 to just under Rs 28,000, while marginally raising the cap on bare metal stents from Rs 7,400 to Rs 7,660. These caps are excluding GST. With DES accounting for about 95% of all stents used in India, this means most stents will become cheaper. The authority, which had...
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Big Data, Large Concerns -Amba Kak & Jason Schultz
-The Indian Express Consent and accountability should be at the core of the new PRIvacy law. The Supreme Court recently affirmed a fundamental right to PRIvacy. The government is now moving to enact a data PRIvacy law, the Justice Shri Krishna Committee has released a comprehensive report and the consultation process is coming to a close. Multiple legal challenges against Aadhaar — many involving citizens’ PRIvacy — are being heard before...
More »Jaitley clarifies on cost parameter to calculate MSPs to be paid to farmers -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com The finance minister’s clarification that the government will use the A2+FL measure to determine MSPs for crops is likely to disappoint farmer organizations Finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday that farmers would be provided 50% returns over and above what they spend on inputs such as seeds and fertilizers and an imputed value of family labour, clearing the confusion over which measure of cost of cultivation would be used to...
More »Costly proposition: Rush to avail Madhya Pradesh's MSP scheme
-The Indian Express To ensure traders in Madhya Pradesh are not able to manipulate markets too much, the state has taken PRIces prevalent in two other states as well to calculate a reference PRIce. The Centre is yet to work out the modalities of its MSP-based deficiency payments scheme, but if Madhya Pradesh’s just-concluded Bhaavantar Bhugtaan Yojana (BBY) is anything to go by, the scheme will be a costly one. Market arrivals of...
More »Hardly a gamechanger -Subrata Mukherjee & Subhanil Chowdhury
-The Hindu Neither the Budget nor the National Health Policy 2017 shows a clear health sector road map The National Health Protection Scheme announced in this year’s Budget has generated a lot of debate. The government has committed itself to “providing coverage up to ?5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation” for 10 crore poor families, with approximately 50 crore people as beneficiaries. As only ?2,000 crore...
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