Like Universal Basic Income talk over in these days, Universal Health Coverage had been a policy debate since many years, the result of which have been seen in myriad central and states government policies. India has been on slow pace to initiate a robust foundation policy which will define health coverage for all under a single programme. It has initiated many health policies differentiated on income and gender basis, for example, Rashtriya Swasthiya Bima Yojana, Employment State Insurance S...
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The impact of demonetisation is immense and it is bound to have positive impact in the long run via different channels of transmission. The different transmission channels are explained below in detail.
The more cash in the coffers of bank and financial institutions would lead to lower lending rate of interest which can boost investment and hence the growth of Indian GDP. The easy availability of loan will bring many unbanked and poor section of the society un...
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(The Article was written in 2015)
At present, recovering from a concatenation of untoward macroeconomic events in the recent past, including global financial meltdown and running inflation, Indian economy witnesses an improvement on the economic front, albeit creeping. The Inter...
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(Written jointly by Krishna M and Akshat Mechu)
Amidst thousands of people lined up for new currency in front of banks and ATM machines, Mr. Jitendra, a farmer from Sikar district of Rajasthan, who borrowed about Rs 3 lakh for his daughter’s marriage just 2 days before the announcement of demonetization, has been totally hacked off since the NDA government’s decision to demonetize Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes, which together constitute a significant sha...
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The implementation of the long-pending indirect tax reform – Goods and Services Tax (GST) – has become closer to reality with the passing of the GST Constitutional Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha on August 3, 2016 and further with approval of the amendment by the Lok Sabha on August 8, 2016. There is still a long way to go and many hurdles to surmount before the GST becomes a reality.
In fact, there are many formalities and procedures to complete...
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Recently there is a raging debate about rising intolerance in India. Many people are of the view that since after Modi Sarkar came into power in 2014, incidents of intolerance have raised with feeling of insecurity and concern among minorities. In recent months, there have been spates of intolerant incidents all over the country: from the killing of rationalists like Pansare and Kalburgi to the burning of dalit children;...
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“Give Justice Not Death”
The recent protest against capital punishment clearly demonstrate different manifests of the issue. The Law Commission of India submitted its 262nd report o...
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On 15th June 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘Skill India Mission’ (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, PMKVY) on the occasion of the first ever World Youth Skills Day, to ensure 231 million youth of India under the age of 25 are given the required skills that the economy desires and employment is created for the 12 million youth every year who get the training. The programme is also li...
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The world has been forced to take notice of the plight of migrants stranded in the Mediterranean and Andaman Seas.
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AIDS has spawned diverse medical and scientific approaches, with emphasis shifting from immunology, virology, and the like and each constructing the discourse in various ways. In common parlance there was a growing panic about the global nature of this pandemic, the sense that its spread was rapid, and the paradoxical assumption that on the one hand no-one was safe; yet that those ‘responsible’ for AIDS belonged to certain marginalized groups. It was in the climate of this growing...
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