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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.
The Government of India by not caring about its very own chained people being dropped down by a foreign military plane can pretend it is an ostrich, but the picture of an India shrivelled and grovelling and further trying to ‘normalise Indian hate’ tells its own story.
Behind ONOE is Narendra Modi’s striving to change the existing constitutional system in order to take advantage of his presumed popularity and establish himself in power. The nation cannot ignore the political repercussions, as far as consequences go, which will cause both a constitutional and political problem.
Students in one of India’s leading minority institutions fight for free speech. The administration has responded with heavy police deployment and invoking the law to curb demonstrations.
Earlier this month, Tamil website ‘Vikatan’ published a cartoon of Prime Minister Modi. The government’s blocking of the website without supplying any reasoning is another blow to press freedom in the country.
The Ganga and the Himalaya are sacred to millions of Indians, yet these iconic entities of veneration face unjust and unethical treatment.
Delayed reimbursement and disputes over treatment costs have impaired Ayushman Bharat, the Union Government’s flagship national health insurance scheme, with rising demand not matching its promises.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
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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