The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has suggested a complex combination of three pricing models to fix retail prices of 348 essential drugs to balance industry's concerns and public health. The proposal, however, has drawn the ire of drug makers who say it is a Watered down version of the health ministry's proposals. The council has proposed that for medicines facing "insufficient competition" or a monopoly-like situation, the retail price should...
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Youth in Pune fights corruption using biggest yet silent weapon, RTI-Rajesh Rao
Student of Pune-based MIT School of Government (MITSOG), Harshvardhan Reddy, who hails from Karni village in Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh, has kept the Right to Information (RTI) flag flying high by filing over 300 RTI applications along with over 200 first appeals within a short span of two years. The first RTI application, Reddy said, was filed by him against the rural superintendent of police (SP) for delaying his passport...
More »53 women sterilized in Bihar in 2 hours by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Guinness Book of world record would have been happy to include this feat by a surgeon on January 7 in Bihar's Araria district - 53 sterilization operations on females in two hours with the help of unqualified staff in Kaparfora Government Middle School that did not have basic amenities like running Water or sterilizing equipment. Instead, the Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Union and state governments on...
More »Water: the looming problem-Prakash Nelliyat
World Water Day is held annually on March 22 to focus attention on the importance of freshWater and advocate sustainable management of freshWater resources. Each year, the day highlights a specific aspect of freshWater and this year's campaign was on “Water and Food Security.” A large quantity of Water, more than most people think, is used for producing the food we eat everyday. Water is a renewable and finite resource...
More »Women Pay for Kashmir's Water Woes by Athar Parvaiz
Naseema Akhtar, 38, worries that her daily treks to collect clean Water from the mountain springs around her village of Bonpora, in Kashmir’s Kupwara district, are getting longer. She is already doing more than seven km every day. "The higher up you go, the cleaner the Water is likely to be, but there is a limit to how far one can climb to fetch a pitcher of Water," she told IPS....
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