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Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?
The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires
Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra
A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.
When data is used as a weapon against reality: Deviations in the HCES & CES, claims of poverty line
This Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) is qualitatively different in methodology (including sampling) from the earlier Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) last conducted in 2011-12, and therefore the two are not comparable. So the claim that India’s poverty has declined to below 5% doesn’t hold water: Second, the NITI Aayog has made no effort to even determine an official poverty line, last defined in the Census 2001.
Gene-edited rice sparks alarms: Scientists back activists, warn of hidden dangers
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Two decades on, hunger still haunts Gujarat: Survey exposes stark gap behind poverty claims
A Niti Aayog report, released about two years ago,...
Manipur Violence: Two years down, health rights activists demand restoration and spread of essential services all over state
Marking two years of the Manipur violence and unrest, health rights activists and movements across India have appealed to President of India, Draupadi Murmi for the immediate creation/restoration of an effective public health infrastructure, personnel, services with safety and appropriate budgetary allocation– in the valley, hills and relief camps of Manipur
Gujarat: A Painful Period in Salt Pans of Little Rann of Kutch
Women workers go through a cycle of agony in the eight months they toil in salt pans, where poor water availability and lack of medical help make monthly bleeding scary.
Women in remote villages mobilise to check fast spread of alcoholism
Due to a combination of factors, there has been...
Catch people’s attention on pollution narrative: “Switching to public transport can lower your heart attack risk by 10%.”
Messaging and communication are key and the Indian people’s lukewarm response to spiralling air pollution is because of this: Will campaigns such as “Wearing an N95 mask reduces your PM2.5 exposure by 95%” or “Switching to public transport can lower your heart attack risk by 10%” change this making people speak out?
Why health and sex education for young is crucial: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court, in a recent case, — Just Rights for Children Alliance & Anr. v. S. Harish & Ors. Has recommended the establishment and creation of an expert committee for the comprehensive health, sex education, and POCSO awareness among children
The MVA promise to uphold right to healthcare in Maharashtra: A visionary approach to equitable and comprehensive health access
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