Month: May 2020
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India’s COVID-19 Challenge: Assessing Health Services’ Response to a National Crisis
The most developed countries, despite their vast and advanced health care facilities still cannot effectively deal with the COVID-19 situation without a top-notch approach in policy making and implementation, as is the case with the USA. More importantly, there is a strong need for action to ensure that these policies do not hinder the extension…
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Access to Clean Cooking Fuel in India: Aspiring for Gas Pipeline while struggling for LPG
By Anushka Gutte & Mrigakshi Tandon, Research Associates, Policy In May 2016, the government launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana that aimed at providing 5 crore Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections in the name of women of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) household. Research suggests that only 18 percent of rural households in India have…