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The health checklist Crisis at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur. Comptroller and Auditor General s report-> 1)-Financial administration were to be ignored, 2)-Shortage of staff at primary health centres (PHCs), community health centres (CHCs) and district hospitals, 3)-Lack of essential medicines, 4)-Broken-down equipment and un lled doctor vacancies. In the case of Uttar Pradesh, the CAG found that about 50% of the PHCs it audited did not have a doctor. Basic facilities in the form of health sub-centres, PHCs and CHCs met only half the need in Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, putting pressure on a handful of referral institutions such as the Gorakhpur hospital.
Continue Indian Public Health Standards were issued in 2007 and 2012, covering facilities from health sub-centres upwards. Centre has set ambitious health goals for 2020 and is in the process of deciding the financial outlay for various targets under the National Health Mission, Including reduction of the infant mortality rate to 30 per 1,000 live births. This will require 1)-Sustained investment and monitoring, and 2)-Ensuring that the prescribed standard of access to a health facility with the requisite medical and nursing resources within a 3-km radius is achieved on priority. It is imperative for the government to recognise the limitations of a market-led mechanism, as the NITI Aayog has pointed out in its action agenda for 2020. Bringing equity in access to doctors, diagnostics and medicines for the rural population has to be a priority for the National Health Mission.
Continue NITI Aayog s recent proposal for the partial privatisation of district-level government hospitals has been criticised for commercialising health care. Under the proposal, private hospitals will be allowed to bid for 30-year leases Give them control over portions of government hospitals dedicated to treating non communicable diseases Critics argue that private hospitals focussed on profits will do no good to the poor A ordability is indeed the major issue preventing poor Indians from getting proper health care. Governments often have very little incentive to provide quality health care to many citizens. The focus then should be on how to make market-based health care more affordable.
The architecture of censorship Independence Day is an occasion to celebrate freedom from a colonial regime. Demands for a right to free speech, and for an end to political, cultural and artistic censorship, were at the heart of our freedom struggle, and which culminated in the celebrated Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution. Last week, however, two events revealed that 70 years after Independence Freedom of speech still occupies a fragile(न ज क) and tenuous(त च छ) place in the Republic, especially when it is pitted(खड ) against the authority of the State. 1)-First was the Jharkhand government s decision to ban the Sahitya Akademi awardee Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar s 2015 book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance, for portraying the Santhal community in bad light. 2)-Second was an order of a civil judge at Delhi s Karkardooma Court, restraining the sale of Priyanka Pathak Narain s new book on Baba Ramdev, titled Godman to Tycoon.
Continue The way forward 1)-The first problem is a problem of legal reform. The solution is obvious: to repeal Sections 95 and 96, take the power of banning books out of the hands of the government. If indeed the government wants to ban a book, it must approach a court and demonstrate, with clear and cogent evidence. 2)-The second problem, however, is a problem of legal culture, and therefore, a problem of our public culture. It can only be addressed through continuing -> affirmation of free speech as a core, foundational, and non-negotiable value of our Republic and our Constitution.
News Analysis Page-1,11- Gorakhpur deaths not due to lack of oxygen, says panel Were not caused by a shortage of oxygen supply, a three-member Central government committee said As per records, we have fewer deaths than last year: govt. committee Encephalitis- Inflammation(स जन) of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
Continue Page-1- Govt. clears TN s NEET ordinance The Union Law Ministry on Wednesday forwarded to the President the Tamil Nadu government s proposed ordinance on oneyear exemption from NEET. The ordinance will be applicable for only government medical colleges in the State.
Continue Page-1- India has 27,312 elephants, census shows While numbers are lower than in 2012, previous counts Estimate, derived from the sighting-based direct count method alone, will be confirmed with estimates from the indirect dung-count method in three months. According to the report, released by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change on August 12, Karnataka has the highest number of elephants (6,049), followed by Assam (5,719) and Kerala (3,054). Due to habitat fragmentation, elephants are moving out to agricultural landscapes leading to an increase in man-elephant conflict.
Continue Page-7- Union Cabinet approves new metro rail policy Union Cabinet has approved a new policy for expanding and regulating metro rail services in cities across India. This is the first such policy document prepared by the Centre since metro rail operations began in Delhi in 2002. Policy gives a big boost to private players by making private participation mandatory for all the three funding options be it a public-private partnership (PPP) model with central assistance under the Viability Gap Funding scheme of the Finance Ministry, a grant from the Centre under which 10% of the project cost would be given as a lump sum, or a 50:50 equity sharing model between the Central and State governments.
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Continue Page-13- India aims to widen oil import sources Indian Oil Corporation placed India s first ever shale oil order two days ago with the U.S., according to company Chairman Sanjiv Singh, who said that the prices from the U.S. were very competitive even when compared with those from Gulf nations prices lower than for supplies from Gulf countries
Continue Page-18- Origin of modern apples traced to Kazakhstan The modern crisp apple originated in a mountainous region of Kazakhstan, according to a study which reveals a surprising two-way journey on the Silk Road for one of the world s most popular fruit.
Last Day- Q s- Ans All India services are as follows:- IAS,IFS & IPS. Present law commission is the 21 st. Bar Council of India was formed in 1961 its headquarters are in New Delhi. Green revolution started in India in early 1960's in Punjab Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Father of Green revolution-> American agronomist Dr Norman Borlaug. Minimum support price is decided by the government by the Recommendation of commission for agricultural cost and prices.