Dear Reader,
As the ill effects of climate change increasingly become a living reality, greening the economy is an essential priority for governments if we have to arrest and roll back the regressive effects of environmental atrophy.
Down To Earth analyses the Union Budget for 2022-23, tabled in Parliament by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last week, and finds several aspects that go towards creating a greener and sustainable economy - especially the focus on energy transition and climate action. However, it cautions that its efficacy will depend upon commitment, speed, and the scale of implementation.
Calling it a “paradigm shift”, Swarajya lauds the tabling of the Output-Outcome Monitoring Framework (OOMF) for the fourth consecutive year, along with the Union Budget, and argues that this marks a move towards institutionalising the measuring of the real end-results of the government’s spending.
Mukkulam and surrounding villages in the Virudhunagar District of Tamil Nadu have seen an abnormal number of cases of kidney failure for ten years now. The villagers and local activists contend that the biomedical waste disposal unit in the locality is the cause of their anguish. The News Minute investigates.
With the Union government agreeing to re-examine the issue of ‘marital rape’, The Probe debates the issues, the concerns and the need for an enlarged public discourse.
And, does India need an Indian Health Service, on the lines of other all India services like the IAS, IPS and the IFS? Think Pragati discusses and analyses why successive governments have been coy in taking it forward.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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