Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
States blame the Centre for their fiscal problems, particularly when the political parties in power at the two levels are different. This is what the Punjab Finance Minister did while presenting the State Budget for 2010-2011. True, almost all the elastic sources of revenue
Acknowledging the difference the National Rural Health Mission has made to the healthcare system, the Third Common Review Mission (CRM) highlights that many States had come up with innovations for retaining professionals in public service in rural and remote areas. While most States focused on financial incentives, some others had …
KOCHI: Baby care in Kochi hospitals, be it in the private sector or the government sector, will not be the same anymore. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), in association with the Indian Paediatrics Association (IAP) and the United Nations International Children
Chandigarh: Defective budgeting, improper planning, slow implementation of schemes, faulty execution of works - the report of the Controller and Auditor-General of India on Haryana, presented to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, found this and much more. It also brought to light, inter alia, deficiencies in systems and procedures, excess payments, …
Defective budgeting, improper planning, slow implementation of schemes, faulty execution of works - the report of the Controller and Auditor-General of India on Haryana, presented to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, found this and much more. It also brought to light, inter alia, deficiencies in systems and procedures, excess payments, wasteful …
Despite many policy measures taken by the central and state governments, the indebtedness of farmers, especially marginal and small cultivators, keeps increasing. Some recent studies on agrarian distress show the significant role of healthcare expenditure in increasing indebtedness. This article presents the result of a study conducted in selected villages …
Admitting to the highest infant mortality rate in the country, Madhya Pradesh today said that 130,233 children died in the state before attaining the age of five between 2005 and 2009. During the same period, the state received Rs 1601.80 crore in grants from the Centre under the National Rural …
Bijay Sankar Bora UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said the Centre would soon unveil an urban health mission on the lines of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to look after healthcare needs of urban poor and slum dwellers. Addressing a function at Mawdiangdiang on the outskirts of Meghalaya
Government doctors serving in rural areas of Orissa are often found missing from workplace. So, the chief district medical officer of the tribal dominated Sonepur district decided to use technology to watch over the doctors. Premanand Senapaty used funds available under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to provide five …
Concerned by the lack of substantial steps by states to control infant deaths in the country, the 13th Finance Commission has recommended linking states
MUKESH RANJAN Bridging the ruralurban divide, the Centre is contemplating to launch a unified National Health Scheme in mission mode. The National Health Mission, as it will be called, with a budgetary allocation of about Rs 15,000 crores, is likely to be announced in the upcoming Budget, which will be …
A two-day training programme was organised in collaboration with NRHM and UNICEF on January 11 and 12 at Swahid Bhavan, Lakhimpur for the volunteers of Nawa Bihan Samaj (NBS) for monitoring the trainingprogramme on Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) in the village level formed by National Rural Health Mission …