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.
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.
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
19 States Freeze MGNREGA Payments, Centre Not Releasing Funds
Wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) have been frozen in 19 states as of October 31, 2017, official data show.