Allocate 3 per cent of GDP to healthcare, says Indian Medical Association
Recommendations for Union Budget 2013-14 include wooing private sector; public health experts sceptical
Centre’s decision on schemes reflects its conservative approach to economic revival
It will also impact the vulnerable who are already bearing the brunt of COVID-19 and the countrywide lockdown, they said
Budget bites on vehicles
Fails to restrain use of subsidised diesel in private diesel cars
Prime Minister’s Logic
Bonn meet ends with a more balanced draft text for Paris climate deal
Experts believe there are a number of fundamental issues that still need to be resolved
100 smart satellite cities on anvil
Push for urban development through PPP and FDI
Assam budget announces measures for small tea growers
Retains VAT rate on auction sale of tea, proposes policy to maintain quality of produce
No sops for rural Indian
No extra funds for MGNREGA, sanitation; allocations reduced for rural roads and housing programme
Funds for social welfare cut drastically in revised budget estimates
Ministers write protest letters to prime minister and finance minister, saying it would greatly impact ongoing schemes
Budget 2015 gives drought-hit Marathwada a miss
Proposed PPP in irrigation may prove disastrous as control of water may pass into private hands
Money, money everywhere; not a clean drop to drink
Experts lament the lack of scientific planning and direction for cleaning of rivers in budgets
Check Jharkhand’s degrading environment
Unscientific mining has caused rampant environmental degradation in the state in the absence of proper monitoring
China's per capita carbon emissions surpass EU's
India has one of four highest CO2 emissions in the world, says report
Budget: Thumbs down from farmers and GM industry
Say does not increase farmers’ income
Budget through the years post liberalisation
Run up to Budget 2012-13
Rural health, malnutrition get attention
Health sector overall allocated even less than what it received last year, say experts
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