Dec
29
Budget allocations for education and health : Corporate hospitals!
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Tele-medicine should reach India’s remote areas. The budget makes generous allocations for education. But not enough for health. The allocations in the budget for national rural health mission allots just less than Rs. 2,000 more ( from Rs.8,420 crore to Rs.10,280 crore). We have a non-speaking Prime Minister and an over-talking Finance Minister.It seems that [...]
Dec
29
Update the school standards!
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International Baccalaureate? IGCSE? Public Schools and established schools must go for them! Indian schools need updating!Indian schools must become international standard schools. There is an Indian Public Schools Conference organisation.Not much is heard of its activities, perhaps its activities are not worth reporting in the press or worthy of public attention. It is time we [...]
Dec
26
Amartya Sen on rural migration
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Where too many theories don’t work! Amartya Sen was in India recently and he was at his usual best: brilliant, insightful and oh, too many stimulating words and suggestions. So too another Nobel Prize economist, the American Joseph Stiglitz too was in India and he too was so brilliant and made very many insightful points. [...]