This explainer on public health financing in India ahead of Budget2021 delineates the key areas of central and state funding, and explains why this year’s budget is especially significant.
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COVID-19 Calls for Increased Budget Provisioning for Child Health, Nutrition: Experts
To discuss the critical issues and practical challenges related to spheres of child nutrition and health of children and pregnant and lactating women, during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, Child Rights and You (CRY) and Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) held a national webinar that brought together academicians, subject experts, and NGOs working on themes of child nutrition and child health.
Budget Explainer: How India Funds Public School Education
In 2019-20, India spent Rs 6.43 lakh crore ($88 billion) of public funds on education. How was this money spent? We explain how the government finances public school education in India, how the money is spent and what can be improved.
Budget Byte: Education Scheme ‘Samagra Shiksha’ Expenditure Fell in 2020
Samagra Shiksha is an integrated centrally sponsored scheme (CSS) focused on pre-school to senior secondary level. Release of funds for the scheme has been slow in 2020.
Rs 1.3 Lakh Crore – a.k.a. What’s Expected of the Health Budget This Year
At the end of a traumatic year, largely caused by a pandemic, it is indeed to be expected that health expenditure would be a central aspect of the budget to be presented in February 2021.
What India’s Gender Budgets Have Achieved
While India’s gender budgets have succeeded in drawing attention to gender issues, experts say ministries and departments consider them as an aggregation exercise only, and allocate arbitrary amounts without grassroots-level planning.
Budget Byte: Public Health & Wellness Centres Saw Huge Turnout in 2020
In 2020, health and wellness centres (HWCs) saw an unprecedented turnout — over three times that in 2018-2019. In some states such as Rajasthan and Maharashtra, footfall went up four to six times.
PM-KISAN Sees Higher Spend, But All Welfare Schemes Aren’t As Lucky
The central government’s COVID-19 response has seen more funds flow towards some of its flagship welfare programmes but less to others.
The Partial NFHS-5 Data Is Reason Enough for Serious Concern, Urgent Action
Partial results from the National Family Health Survey Round 5 (NFHS-5) released last week draw attention to the crisis of malnutrition in the country. There is an improvement in some indicators in some states, but on the whole in most states there is a worsening in indicators.
Child Nutrition Crisis May Derail India’s Aspirations
It can be tempting to blame every crisis on the Covid-19 pandemic. But quite often, facts get in the way. Many things were bad enough even prior to the onset of the pandemic, that gutted so many lives and livelihoods. The latest data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) is a case in point.