Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The World Bank has asked policymakers in India to stop neglecting urban poverty and expand the scope of some rural flagship schemes to urban areas. It has called for a shift in focus in policy to address poverty as demographic changes and intense migration have dampened poverty reduction rates in …
The debate over 'cashless payments' misses the real point: What we really need is health insurance for all, not just the few people in cities who can afford high premiums and meet absurd 'cherry picking" conditions. And such a system is not only feasible, it exists in many countries.
Two years ago when Irfan Alam, a young IIM graduate, started the Sammaan Foundation in Bihar that helped people get bank loans for buying rickshaws and thereby, earn a living, it was hailed as a revolution. From the initial 100 people, today there are a few lakh beneficiaries of Alam
To sustain the positive economic trajectory that India has had during the past decade, and to honour the fundamental right of all citizens to adequate health care, the health of all Indian people has to be given the highest priority in public policy. We propose the creation of the Integrated …
The debate over 'cashless payments' misses the real point: what we really need is health insurance for all, not just the few people in cities who can afford high premiums and meet absurd 'cherry picking' conditions. And such a system is not only feasible, it exists in many countries.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh has invested in the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme as a means to reduce burdensome health expenses incurred by the state
India rightly brands itself incredible. The country's remarkable political, economic, and cultural transformation over the past half century has made it a geopolitical force almost equal to that of China. The west has welcomed the growth of India: witness US President Barack Obama's recent support for Indian membership of the …
India's growing economic strength is based on an economic model that has enhanced the very disparities that the call is concerned about. Promotion of medical tourism at the cost of universal primary health care has not been accidental, but the result of a policy that places the market above people's …
In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket expenditures, with more than three-quarters of the increasing financial burden of health care being met by households. Health-care expenditures exacerbate poverty, with about 39 million additional …
Previous studies on per capita personal health care spending have demonstrated wide variation in health care spending across the United States (Martin et al., 2007). With Affordable Care Act coverage expansions through Medicaid and state-level Health Insurance Exchanges on the horizon, it is more important than ever for policy makers …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Appreciating the country's commitment towards universalising health coverage for the people, health economist Robert Yates has said the country needs to increase its public spending on health either by health insurance schemes or taxation.
From the US to China, South Africa to India, governments and citizens are engaged in an active debate about how best to protect people from catastrophic health care costs while ensuring access to health care of adequate quality. While it is widely known that in the US there are 50 …
Good health is essential to human welfare and to sustained economic and social development. WHO's Member States have set themselves the target of developing their health financing systems to ensure that all people can use health services, while being protected against financial hardship associated with paying for them. In this …
The absence of first level healthcare facilities and the high cost of treating even routine illnesses are the immediate problems in the existing healthcare system as also the fact that high costs do not necessarily imply reliability of treatment. No insurance scheme or altruistic healthcare providers can address these problems. …
Hospitals in India are generally lackadaisical in following stringent patient safety and infection-control standards. AN epidemiological study on the emergence of new antibiotic resistance mechanism in bacteria in India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom was recently published in Lancet, the medical journal. Medical experts in India, supported by the Government …
SHILLONG, Oct 5: In a series of meeting held between the Meghalaya Chief Secretary and other senior officials of Finance, Health & Family Welfare, Education and Industries and Commerce departments since yesterday, a delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) has identified some areas on a priority basis. They include an …
Tango with nature India has been using lakes, ponds and baolis (step wells) since ancient times ('What monsoon means', July 16-31, 2010). Delhi was once replete with water bodies. In the past 50 years, government agencies started disbanding natural ponds, lakes and baolis, declaring their water untested, and therefore, unfit …
ON JULY 1, India’s four public sector insurance companies withdrew cashless hospitalisation, the star attraction among health insurance policies, from around 100 high-end hospitals in Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Delhi. Consumers will now have to pay cash if they seek treatment in these hospitals; a stipulated amount fixed for the …
