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The government claims that the PM’s health insurance scheme has ‘saved crores of families’ from such expenditure. But there are no data to support this claim, and studies indicate India’s most marginalised people are not benefitting, while insurance companies are.
Compared to upper caste Hindus and other backward castes, Adivasis die four years, Dalits three years and Muslims a year earlier, and the Muslim life expectancy has worsened over the last 20 years, according to two new studies. The disparities are not due to wealth alone …
A government bill to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 will not prevent early or forced weddings, will deem many marriages of those between 18-21 illegal, and criminalise elopement by girls dodging domestic abuse, confinement, forced marriage.
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