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Recent Welfare Schemes: An Assessment
The government's commitment to welfare schemes for the unorganised sector has at best been half-hearted. The two broad schemes that have been envisaged, would take at least a decade or two to be established before their benefits can be rightly availed by those most in need. The public health service system in the country, on the other hand, while catering to large segments of the population, has overreached itself. In this situation, bringing in a mix of providers, including private and private-not-for-profit entities, offers a more feasible arrangement. At the same time, a significant share of healthcare services needs to be retained within the public health system as a counterpoise to the possible market distortion by the private health system.
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Moving Bragg grating solitons in a semilinear dual-core system with dispersive reflectivity
The existence, stability and collision dynamics of moving Bragg grating solitons in a semilinear dual-core system where one core has the Kerr nonlinearity and is equipped with a Bragg grating with dispersive reflectivity, and the other core is linear are investigated. It is found that moving soliton solutions exist as a continuous family of solutions in the upper and lower gaps of the system’s linear spectrum. The stability of the moving solitons are investigated by means of systematic numerical stability analysis, and the effect and interplay of various parameters on soliton stability are analyzed. We have also systematically investigated the characteristics of collisions of counter-propagating solitons. In-phase collisions can lead to a variety of outcomes such as passage of solitons through each other with increased, reduced or unchanged velocities, asymmetric separation of solitons, merger of solitons into a quiescent one, formation of three solitons (one quiescent and two moving ones) and destruction of both solitons. The outcome regions of in-phase collisions are identified in the plane of dispersive reflectivity versus frequency. The effects of coupling coefficient, relative group velocity in the linear core, soliton velocity and dispersive reflectivity and the initial phase difference on the outcomes of collisions are studied.
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National Health Policy 2015: A Narrow Focus Needed
Since independence, India's national health policies have been aspirational but the end results have been limited. The National Health Policy 2015, which is in the process of being finalised, should, in place of the earlier \"broadband\" approach, adopt a \"narrow focus\" on primary healthcare through the National Rural Health Mission. The latter has focused on primary healthcare and has shown visible results. A slew of suggestions as to how this can be done are made in this article.
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National Health Policy 2015
[...]very small amounts of resources have been made available for it. Since it has a bearing on the NRHM, it again needs to be highlighted that the aggregate resources for the health sector are grossly inadequate. There must be a quantum jump in the last two years of the plan period if the government can defend its sincerity in making plan allocations. Since the NRHM has markedly picked up momentum, it would be possible for the sector to gainfully absorb double the allocation in 2016 and 2017, i e, Rs 80, 000 per year. [...]of this, the outreach of primary services is much more per unit cost than secondary and tertiary services. [...]there is no institution to technically regulate the quality of services provided by these practitioners. Since the NHP 2015 is likely to make several recommendations entrusting service responsibilities to lower order health personnel, it is necessary to put in place robust institutions to supervise the ethical standards and technical performance of the health practitioners.
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It's a vocation and not a job, says Javid Chowdhury
It won't be presumptuous to claim that the old bureaucrat's profession was a vocation, not just a job. In a developing country like India, there is a societal need and an ethical imperative to intervene on behalf of groups that desperately need a helping hand-and that can only be provided by practitioners of a vocation. A senior bureaucrat of the 1990s would have cut his teeth when a commitment to public interest was the talisman of the civil service. Today, even among the most dedicated and responsible young civil servants, the mere mention of it would raise a snigger of bewilderment. It is not as though the old civil servants were self-denying ascetics. It is just that they internalised the worldview that public interest was the ultimate touchstone to determine the worth of a public servant. In a country awash with public scams, integrity is important for a public servant. The old civil servants drew from the explicit value system of their time-integrity, principally financial integrity, was essential. Of course, it must be noted that opportunities for financial misdemeanours in the 1990s were negligible compared with today. Now we have a vast number of government transactions that are highly speculative- many involve intangible assets where there are no market transactions to determine price; and many other sale transactions involve a monetary consideration that has been determined by subjective assumptions. The oldies of circa 1990 had credibility gifted to them by the citizenry, and they used it to great advantage. The young civil servants would do well to win that back, even if it means investment of much time and effort. I can guarantee they will live to recognise this step as the premium investment of their professional career. So this sermon from an oldie to the fresh young civil servants must end here. There is no intention of being judgmental. Each generation will, no doubt, design its professional persona in the context of the circumstances. However, this weather-worn veteran would venture to suggest that the enduring foundational values mentioned above would continue to be relevant in any circumstances, in any age.
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