Budget 2018: The only major announcement is reduction of women employees’ PF contribution to 8% for first three years of their employment against existing rate of 12% or 10% with no change in employers’ contribution.
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Political Messaging Masks Budget 2018’s Actual Delivery in the Social Sector
Even as schemes have received minimal allocations, this budget signals an important shift in the political narrative. Gone is the focus on jobs, skills, aspirations and empowerment.
Budget 2018: National Health Mission- The institutional barrier
Even as the new National Health Policy of 2017 urges a widening of the service net, can outcomes improve without reform of underlying institutional shortcomings?
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं को इलाज की जरूरत
हर साल बजट पेश होने के बाद सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य पर होने वाली बहस सिर्फ एक आंकड़े के इर्द-गिर्द सिमट जाती है।
Budget 2018 and education: Restoring the balance
Can India realize its demographic potential in the absence of a far-sighted policy for education as a whole?
Budget 2018: Stumbling towards sustainable sanitation
The challenge will be in ensuring that open defecation-free villages and cities are truly ODF, but more crucially that they remain so.
Budget 2018: Swachh Bharat Mission- A reality check
Swachh Bharat Mission is racing towards its target of achieving an Open Defecation Free India by 2019, constructing more than 2,000 toilets every hour; but will the gains from such increased coverage be sustainable?
Budget 2018: India’s secondary education challenge- it’s not elementary, my dear
India has such limited access to basic education that any conversation about quality education is seen as aspirational bordering on utopian
Budget 2018 view: ‘Patient’ approach to better health
Budget 2018 view: ‘Patient’ approach to better health
The state is writing cheques it can’t cash
India’s poor state capacity is often blamed on inadequate government spending—but government inability to use allocated funds is also to blame