Health as a Justifiable Fundamental Rights

There has always been a lingering question so as to make Right to Health as a fundamental right similar to right to education. The draft national health policy, 2015 proposes the following formulation- “the Center shall enact, after due discussion ..

Right to Health in the Constitution of India

Right to Health is not included as an explicit fundamental right in the Indian Constitution. Most provisions related to health are in Part-IV {Directive Principles}. These are: Article 38 says that the state will secure a social order for the ..

Universal Health Coverage in India: Various Issues

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is free access to healthcare to all, enabled and guaranteed by the government and provided by public as well as private sector. UHC is now widely adopted by many other countries both as a developmental imperative ..

National Health Policy, 2015

India’s third {draft} National Health Policy was released in 2015. Prior to this, two National Health policies (1983 and 2002) had served in guiding the approach for the health sector in the Five-Year Plans and for different schemes. Since 2002 ..

Public Health: Achievements in MDGs and Way Forward to SDGs

The deadline to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) expired in 2015. Out of the total 10 health targets, India was able to achieve or get close to achieve only four targets. As per WHO’s annual World Health Statistics for ..

Institutional Framework around Public Health in India

In the constitution of India, items such as public health, hospitals and sanitation fall in the State list. However, the items having wider ramifications at the national level like population control & family welfare, medical education, prevention of food adulteration, ..

UPSC Daily Prelims General Studies Quiz – 11

GKToday’s Daily General Studies Quiz – 11 for Civil Services (IAS, IFoS) and other UPSC Examinations of 2017 and 2018 . This quiz has 10 questions on food chain, rainforests, algal bloom, post-retirement jobs for supreme court judges, SENSEX, State Finance Commissions in India, stocks in climate change negotiations, tides frequency, arm’s length principle. Questions of this quiz are from archives of Integrated IAS General Studies Programme.

Choice Based Credit System

Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) allows the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses comprising core, elective/minor or skill based courses. The courses will be evaluated by following the grading system, which is regarded to be better than the ..

Public Expenditure in Education Sector

As per the norms of National policy on education (1986), at least 6% of the GDP must be spent on education. However, successive governments have failed to achieve this target and remained at around 4%. The Union Budget has allocated ..

What are obstacles in Girls’ Education in India?

It is rightly stated that “Educating a boy is educating a person… Educating a girl is educating a nation”. Some of the major barriers which stand for girls education are as follows- Lack of consciousness amongst the female members to ..