The child-care funding cuts come at a time when the central government reduced its allocations to the ministry of women and child development over two years to 2016-17.
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As Demand For Rural Jobs Rises, Government Curtails Funding For Key Employment Scheme
Reduced funding has resulted in 48% fewer projects getting completed over the six years to 2016.
Decentralised Approach to Tackling Nutrition
What is required is a holistic and comprehensive plan to nutrition.
Lessons from GST for eliminating the Rs1 trillion lying around as float
Unclogging the government’s financial pipeline requires expanding workflow- driven IT platforms akin to MGNREGS for all central sector, centrally sponsored and state government schemes
Manual scavenging: A road with no end
There are significant differences in the number of manual scavengers identified by the states and those identified in the Social Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011
Education not yet for all
Expenditure as a share of total approved budgets has been decreasing for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
National Health Mission needs a leg up
The National Health Policy 2017 envisages raising public health expenditure progressively to 2.5% of the GDP by 2025
Why Poor Funding of Swachh Bharat Mission Since 2014 Has Put its Goals at Risk
While budgetary allocation has been hiked in the last two years, it’s still not nearly enough for the government to meet its 2019 goal.
Where has the social sector money gone?
This year’s budget was to focus on “strengthening agriculture and rural economy, provision of good healthcare to economically less privileged, taking care of senior citizens, infrastructure creation and improving the quality of education in the country”.
How A ‘Pro-Poor’ Budget Downplays Programmes That Fund The Poor
Budget speeches are all about messaging. While we all speculated on what the budget will hold for the social sector, many of us, got it wrong.