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| Anirudh Krishna, Economist interviewed by Archana Masih | |
| s sparse. Knowledge about how to get from here to there is virtually non-existent in villages. What has really changed for India's poor? What difference have schemes like NREGA, Panchayati Raj, National Rural Health Mission etc made to their life? First, education, at least to the primary level, has made a quantum jump. The illiterate Indian peasant is soon becoming a thing of the past. A large majority of young people, those b | |
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| Insufferable | |
| 1986 to 9 per cent in 1995, and 12 per cent in 2004. Over two-thirds of India's hospitals and health centers are in urban and peri-urban areas. In a bid to remedy this, the government launched the National Rural Health Mission in 2005, hailed as a serious effort to reverse the trend of increasing privatisation and unaffordable health facilities. But recent CAG reports on accumulated, unspent funds and the lack of trained medical and paramedical per | |
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| Tackling hunger by Purnima S Tripathy | |
| antive achievement in the social sector. Social sector agenda “Our victory in the 2009 elections had a lot to do with social sector programmes such as the NREGA, the RTI and the NRHM [National Rural Health Mission], which came into existence mainly because of the push given by the NAC. In the euphoria of our unexpected electoral victory, we forgot the social sector agenda in the last one year, and the formation of the NAC is a step in | |
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| Acute shortage of doctors, paramedics in rural areas by Kounteya Sinha | |
| ent of basic infrastructure like roads, connectivity and banks," he reasoned. According to the ministry, human resource engagement is a priority issue, and an integral part of the flagship National Rural Health Mission. "This includes multi-skilling of doctors and paramedics, provision of incentives, to serve in rural areas like blended payments, difficult areas allowances, PG allowance, case based payments and improved accommoda | |
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| UP ranked lowest in rural healthcare in country | |
| Uttar Pradesh has another reason to hang its head in shame. In the latest survey report released by the ministry of health, under the National Rural Health Mission, UP has been ranked the lowest among all states, with a shortfall of over 5800 rural healthcare centres. According to the data, while states like Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir have bettered their performances in the rural health sector -- the states no | |
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| Detracting from entitlements by Brinda Karat | |
| in a court of law. Also, who will determine the list of districts? Will it mean that some States, for example Kerala, may be left out in the first year altogether as was done in the case of the National Rural Health Mission, in this case because they do not fit the definition of “most disadvantaged”? Thus the question of identification of the “most disadvantaged” may itself be discriminatory against States. The NAC is ove | |
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| Survey points to improvement in rural health service | |
| to the Rural Health Survey Report 2009, released by the Health Ministry Wednesday, a remarkable increase in human resource and infrastructure in the rural areas has been achieved since the launch of National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) in 2005. "Comparing the situation of 2005 with 2009, there is a remarkable addition of human resources of all categories and improvement in the physical infrastructure of the health sub-centres, primary heal | |
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| Pre-requisites for sustainable food security by MS Swaminathan | |
| RF) along with the World Food Programme shows that the level of food security is far better in households with toilets. The Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, the Total Sanitation programme and the National Rural Health Mission are all important for food security. India's global rank in the areas of poverty and malnutrition will continue to remain unenviable, so long as the country does not enable all its citizens to have a productive and healt | |
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| Task force to design curriculum for rural heath care cadre by Aarti Dhar | |
| chool. There are now more than 7,00,000 ASHAs in villages and a large number of these have completed four rounds of basic community health worker training while the Mission Steering Group of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has already approved appointment of 53,305 Multi Purpose Male Workers. They will be appointed at the sub-centres in 235 backward districts for three years by the Centre and subsequently the States will have to find res | |
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| Poor Performance by SL Rao | |
| reeling under inflation, who suffered even more. After 2007, imaginative schemes to support the poor have been introduced, like free access for all to primary education (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan), National Rural Health Mission to achieve the same for health services, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which significantly increased funds available for employment schemes from 0.22 per cent of state domestic product in 1998-99 to 0.34 per ce | |
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