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Rural Poverty Alleviation Programmes in India
<p>These discussions on poverty in India culminated in an expert committee being appointed by the Planning Commission in 1977 under the economist Y. K. Alagh that looked to produce a methodology for m...
The Health Risks of Air Pollution
Rising levels of air pollution are posing a health hazard to people worldwide. In 2016, exposure to ambient PM2.5 caused 1.025 million deaths in India. While a number of policies to combat air polluti...
Access to Healthcare in India
Accessible and affordable healthcare in the public sector can reduce India’s growing dependence on private institutions. However, at present lopsided and poorly manned governmental facilities leave no...
Healthcare Insurance in India: A Few Concerns
The Union Government’s budget speech of 2018-19 announced two major initiatives, the National Health Protection Scheme and the establishment of Health and Wellness Centres. Central and state governmen...
Towards minimising the queue before the doctor
In conversation with Alok Mukhopadhyay, Chairman, Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), G’nY brings forth significant concerns in the healthcare system in India, along with prospective strate...
Geospatial Health Mapping
Dr Bhoop Singh, Head of Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS), under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, highlighted the use of spatial technology in geospatial h...
Health Updates
The human race fights innumerable diseases. Scientific innovations and new findings help the human race to keep ahead in the war against ill-health. We bring to you few project summaries that is an im...
Euthanasia
In March 2018, the Supreme Court of India in a landmark judgement passed an order legitimising passive euthanasia in India. However, if passive euthanasia through a ‘living will’ is legalised, the cou...
Mental Health in India
Mental health issues remain unreported over most of India. According to the 2017 World Health Organisation (WHO) Report, major or minor mental illnesses requiring expert intervention is 7.5 per cent o...
पृथ्वी की कक्षा में अंतरिक्ष मलबे और खतरे
<p>अमेरिका के नेशनल एयरोनॉटिक्स एंड स्पेस एडमिनिस्ट्रेशन यानी नासा के हाल के आंकड़ों के अनुसार अंतरिक्ष में 10 सेंटीमीटर (या चार इंच के बराबर) से बड़े 23000, एक सेंटीमीटर से बड़े 500,000 तथा एक मिलीमीटर...