India's concerted healthcare push

 21-Aug-15, Millennium Post

During its tenure, the Modi government has been accused of trying to save on social and subsidy expenditure, which goes towards improving critical social indices and instead channelling most of it into an infrastructure ‘stimulus’. In other words, policymakers at the Centre were accused of committing the cardinal sin of public policy: i.e. putting the cart before the horse.

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A perception was created within certain segments of the media, that the current ruling dispensation did no care much for public health and education expenditure, and instead was a government for the corporate sector.

Suffice to the say the Modi government has shot back at its critics. News reports on Wednesday claimed that the Centre plans to increase public investment in health from 1.04 percent of GDP to 2.5 percent by 2020. Approximately, 70 percent of this sum will be dedicated to expenditure in primary health care. Under its draft National Health Policy, the NDA government has decided to spur investment in public health care facilities across the country.

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