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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Modi Government released a National Health Policy in March 2017 that promised to increase the health expenditure of the Centre and States to 2.5% of GDP by 2025. This article discusses the Modi Government’s actual health policy during the past ten years.
India is facing a hunger and malnutrition crisis. In this article, we examine the Modi Government’s budgetary allocations for the various schemes meant to address the nutrition requirements of the people in the eleven budgets presented from 2014 to 2024.
There is a sense of panic gripping financial markets in India. The immediate causes are a combined slide of indices of stock markets and of the rupee vis-à-vis the US dollar. At the root of this problem is the hugely increased presence of foreign financial capital in India’s market. That consequence of financial liberalisation cannot be easily corrected.
The price for the NPAs of the big corporates is ultimately paid by the aam aadmi. Given that such huge provisions for the NPAs tie up a large portion of funds, it in effect limits the credit available for lending to key sectors like agriculture or MSMEs.
Budgets for most of the schemes and departments, such as education, health, social security pensions, and mid-day meals, are either stagnant or have increased only nominally. Accounting for inflation, the NREGA budget is effectively lower by ~Rs 4,000 crore compared to the FY2025 budget.
In a recent speech, PM Modi stated that agriculture is at the centre of India’s economic policy. He also highlighted the initiatives being taken by his government in promoting natural and climate-resilient farming. We examine these claims in the context of the eleven budgets presented by the Modi government since 2014.
In this article, we first discuss the National Education Policy 2020, and then the budget allocations for school and higher education in the eleven budgets presented by the Modi Government from 2014-15 to 2024-25.
Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using the state to advance its global business interests.
A critical appraisal and some suggestions on the Karnataka Platform Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2023.
Privatising Visakhapatnam Steel undermines the interests of Andhra Pradesh and the larger cause of social justice. For the past four years, the people of Andhra Pradesh and steel plant workers have waged a continuous struggle to protect it.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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