News: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released the National Health Accounts Report for 2017-18. How does NHA capture data? NHA captures health data like out-of-pocket expenditure, insurance premiums from various sources like the “Household social consumption in India: Health” survey of the National Sample Survey Organization. Read here: Per capita out-of-pocket health expenditure sees… Continue reading Health account numbers that require closer scrutiny
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Afforestation funds released to States
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Compensatory Afforestation?3 About Compensatory Afforestation Fund4 Key Provisions of Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act,2016 What is the News? The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) has so far disbursed ₹48,606 crores to 32 States. Chhattisgarh and Odisha have had the maximum amount transferred to them, followed by… Continue reading Afforestation funds released to States
Nagaland killings should prompt a broad rethink
News: The army operation resulted in the tragic death of 14 civilians in Nagaland. Contents1 What can be the impact of the killings? 2 What is AFSPA? Why controversies surrounding it?3 Why there is a stalemate despite the Framework Agreement (FA)?4 What is the way forward? What can be the impact of the killings? It can stall… Continue reading Nagaland killings should prompt a broad rethink
Basking in reflected glory
News: The recent appointment of Parag Agrawal, as the CEO of US-based company ‘Twitter’ started renewed debate on brain drain from India. What are the reasons for brain drain from India? It started in the late-1960s when private sector companies were few and there were few good jobs available in public sector undertakings. Unlike India,… Continue reading Basking in reflected glory
The way to tackle malnutrition
News: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) has released the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5). There has been tardy progress in reducing undernutrition, wasting and stunting. Contents1 What are the findings of NFHS 5?2 What are the lacunae in the system?3 What steps can be adopted to improve the progress?4 What should be the way… Continue reading The way to tackle malnutrition
A docket full of unresolved constitutional cases
News: There is a great asymmetry of power between the state and the citizen. Thus, one of the proposals during the making of the constitution was that petitions which challenge the violation of fundamental rights by the state should be decided within one month. The pendency of critical cases in the judiciary reflects that such proposals… Continue reading A docket full of unresolved constitutional cases
Highly invasive snail spotted in Kerala
What is the News? Researchers have found a tiny snail species named Physella Acuta also known as acute bladder snail in the Edappally canal in Kochi, Kerala. This snail species is globally branded as a Highly Invasive Species. Note: An invasive species is an organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it… Continue reading Highly invasive snail spotted in Kerala
Cooperation awaits its “finding Raiffesisen” movement
News: India enacted legislation for cooperatives in 1904. All India rural credit survey committee in 1954 pointed out that the cooperatives have failed in their objective. How did the cooperative movement start? It started in Europe with pioneers like Friedrich Raiffeisen and Schulze-Delitzsch In Germany. They were based on principles of self-help, self-governance, and self-responsibility.… Continue reading Cooperation awaits its “finding Raiffesisen” movement
The need to reopen anganwadis
News: Due to the Covid pandemic, Anganwadis were closed owing to lockdown. What are the services provided by Anganwadis? Anganwadis play a crucial role in supporting households, low-income families, by providing child care, health and nutrition, education, supplementary nutrition, immunization, health checkup, and referral services. They play an important role in Integrated Child development services… Continue reading The need to reopen anganwadis
Judicial Infrastructure, a neglected case
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is the state of judicial infrastructure in India?3 What is the scheme for judicial infrastructure?4 What is the solution suggested by the CJI? What is the News? The Chief Justice of India has proposed the creation of a National Judicial Infrastructure Authority of India (NJIAI) to address neglected judicial… Continue reading Judicial Infrastructure, a neglected case
