The Hindu Newspaper Analysis 23 June 2023

The Hindu Newspaper Analysis for UPSC

The Hindu Newspaper Analysis 22 June 2023

• Lack of incentives:
• Lack of incentives may be prompting Doctors to not work in rural health facilities.
• Urban-Rural divide:
• Health infrastructure is more in urban areas, so medical professionals are interested stay in urban areas.
• City-bred Doctors are not willing to serve in rural areas, many of which still lack of basic facilities like propre electricity and road connectivity etc.

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• Indian medical education is geared to train Doctors to work only in tertiary care and specialised hospitals, so these medical professionals are not interested to stay in rural areas.
• Lack of incomes:
• Incomes in rural areas are less as compared to urban areas.
• Low government spending:
• Government spending on health is not even 2% of GDP.
• Health facilities are poor in rural areas.
• Lack of basic facilities:
• Many health facilities are functioning without water or electricity supply.
• In Bihar, 31 per cent of the PHCs have neither water nor electricity supply.
• Twenty per cent of PHCs in Uttarakhand and 16 per cent in Kerala have no regular water supply.

Mains Question:

Rural India is struggling with a ‘Missing Doctors Syndrome’. Discuss and suggest measures to deal with the problem.

• A meeting of the Education Ministers of G-20 countries held in Pune agreed to equitable and inclusive use of Artificial Intelligence in education and skilling that respects human rights.
• All G-20 members also agreed to the critical role that education plays as an enabler of human dignity and empowerment globally.
• An outcome statement of the meeting said the G-20 members have agreed on the need to work together for a resilient, equitable, inclusive and sustainable future through education.

G20

• Origin:
• The G20 was formed in 1999 in the backdrop of the financial crisis of the late 1990s that hit East Asia and Southeast Asia in particular.
• Its aim was to secure global financial stability by involving middle-income countries.
• Members:
• Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.

• The Manipur government has declared that the whole State has been affected by riots and violence, impacting the economic activities and livelihood of the public.
• To provide relief, the State government has invoked a rarely used Reserve Bank of India (RBI) provision pertaining to restructuring and rescheduling of loans.
• It provides relief to borrowers when economic activity comes to a halt and offers moratorium on repayment of loans. The guidelines have been mostly invoked in areas affected by natural calamities and not for a law and order situation.
• The Reserve Bank of India (Relief Measures by Banks in Areas Affected by Natural Calamities) Directions, 2018 has been issued to banks in regard to matters relating to relief measures to be provided in areas affected by natural calamity. These Directions are in effect from October 2018.
• The provisions of these Directions shall apply to every Scheduled Commercial Bank (including Small Finance Banks (SFBs) and excluding Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)) licensed to operate in India by Reserve Bank of India.

• RBI Governor Das says ‘job is only half done with the fight against inflation not yet over’;
• Deputy Governor Patra stresses policy needs to remain in ‘brace’ mode to ensure shocks from supply-demand mismatches leave no scars on the economy

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