https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/why-india-must-now-focus-on-healthcare-sector-to-achieve-self-sufficient-economy/2157624/ One of the less considered drivers of growth that would power India’s march to a self-sufficient economy is the healthcare sector. Despite the slow growth in the government’s health expenditure (1.3% to 1.6% of GDP from 2016 to 2020), the healthcare market is poised to increase three-fold to Rs 8.6 trillion by 2022. A…
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Right Decisions Are Not Always The Easy Ones: Why Governments Should Actively Consider Reopening Schools
https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/right-decisions-are-not-always-the-easy-ones-why-governments-should-actively-consider-reopening-schools After the national lockdown and school closures in March, students rushed to adopt online learning. Right at the outset, the inequalities of this model were clear. Electricity, fast uninterrupted Internet services, and a big enough screen are essential for accessing online educational content. However, a sizeable number of Indians, struggle with this digital access,…
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COVID-19, banks and borrowers—the balancing act
https://www.theweek.in/news/biz-tech/2020/10/10/opinion-covid-19-banks-and-borrowers-the-balancing-act.html In the beginning of the year, the Indian economy was undergoing its slowest growth period in recent times. Now faced with the unforeseen effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the growth story is at the mercy of an unprecedented economic downturn. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has observed that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to…
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Why A Young Society Like India Cannot Afford To Ignore Post-Covid Healthcare
https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/why-a-young-society-like-india-cannot-afford-to-ignore-post-covid-healthcare Since the spread of the Covid-19 virus, our discourse and delivery associated with the pandemic is all but proactive. Consequently; global economic recession, decaying health infrastructure, and rapid deterioration of public health has emerged as an immediate global crisis. Despite the evidently obtuse reflexes in containing the virus, little discourse is focused upon how…
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Municipal bonds for an ‘Aatmanirbhar’ urban India
https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/09/24/municipal-bonds-for-an-aatmanirbhar-urban-india.html COVID-19 has issued challenges for the Indian economy, such as slowdowns and unemployment. India needs to address these via resilience and the honing of capabilities in order to get back onto an accelerated growth path. A key method to achieving this is to place focus on infrastructural development to facilitate holistic, long-term growth. The…
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Bringing Water Into Pune’s Smart City Conversation
https://swarajyamag.com/infrastructure/bringing-water-into-punes-smart-city-conversation India faces a growing urban population, with cities constantly playing catch-up to develop and manage the infrastructure required to keep this population afloat. Urban residents in India will account for 52.8 per cent of the population in India by 2050, as compared to 34 per cent today. Pune is one of the fastest growing…
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1) Soul trip I write this piece on my way back from another beautiful travel Rendezvous that i was fortunate enough to have experienced , And as I introspect the whole journey of a soulful week is when stirring realisations begin to subtly yet beautifully dawn on me . These talks with myself while I …
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“In this age of fast forward to regularly, rewind, analyse and get your basics right again in all aspects of life is actually being ‘Ahead of Time’.” – Siddharth Shirole View many of Siddharth’s personal quotes.
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