Over 53 lakh poor families are expected to avail the health insurance cover provided under this scheme, reports Sharat Pradhan For a state where the multi-crore scam involving the National Rural......
The initiative has the potential to, as PM Modi put it, ‘bring revolutionary changes in India’s health facilities’, but there are several challenges in its implementation, report......
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was at Palghar in Maharashtra on Wednesday to launch the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram as part of the National Rural Health Mission scheme, got a flowery......
With elections to local bodies looming, the Maharashtra cabinet took 21 decisions on Tuesday, an unusual number for a single meeting, including the closure of the state's asset reconstruction......
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the removal of the word ‘Samajwadi’ from various development schemes running in Uttar Pradesh, saying ‘Mukhyamatri’ should be......
The UPA2 government finds itself in a jam with its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) being widely misused even as the National Human Rights Commission......
A menu for the revamp of several social schemes has been served by National Democratic Alliance government's first Economic Survey. Indicating that the government is not planning to reduce spending......
The finance ministry is likely to provide a marginal five per cent increase in allocation for centrally sponsored schemes other than the United Progressive Alliance's flagship programmes in the......
Ayushman Bharat aims at providing a cover of Rs 5 lakh per family annually and is aimed at benefitting more than 10 crore poor families across the country. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will hold a pre-Budget discussion with state governments on January 13. Recommendations of the 13th Finance Commission on devolution of funds, the Goods and......