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Mid Day Meal Scheme – Centralisation is no panacea
The National programme for Nutritional Support for Primary Education commonly referred to as the Mid Meal Scheme (MDM’s) is aimed at providing supplementary nutrition to primary school children with the overall objective of enhancing enrollment, retention and participation of children while simultaneously improving their nutritional status. Under the scheme every child in every government school … Continue reading "Mid Day Meal Scheme – Centralisation is no panacea"
Health Care Spending Rising Faster Than Economic Growth In Industrialized Countries – OECD Health Data 2010
While India is still struggling to live up to the “Nine is Mine” dream (calling for 9% of GDP to be committed to health and education), according to OECD’s Health Data 2010, in leading industrialized countries, the health care spending is rising faster than economic growth. The study reports: Average health spending in the 31 member … Continue reading "Health Care Spending Rising Faster Than Economic Growth In Industrialized Countries – OECD Health Data 2010"
India and the Failed States Index: 12 Counts of Failure
Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace have been publishing the Failed States Index since 2005. The 2010 Index uses 90,000 publicly available sources to assess 177 countries and rate them on 12 metrics of state decay—India ranked 87 and received a score of 77.8. Higher scores on a metric indicate a greater degree of failure. The scores … Continue reading "India and the Failed States Index: 12 Counts of Failure"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The tabling and subsequent withdrawal of the Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Act, 2009 by the Law Minister Veerappa Moily has raised several key questions pertaining to the power of the RTI Act 2005 and judicial accountability. The subsequent hue-and-cry among the opposition & civil society organizations and the media interest generated on what … Continue reading "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Effect information campaigns have on political behaviour
What effect do information campaigns have on the political behaviour of citizens and their representatives? In a democracy, having cast their votes and investing their elected representative with the power to govern them, citizens have a right to know how they are being governed, and to demand detailed scrutiny of the process. In this sense, … Continue reading "Effect information campaigns have on political behaviour"