My Perspective

I am a guy from a small village. Having firsthand experience of the healthcare situation in rural areas, I think a three and half year BRHC(bachelor of rural health care)/B.Sc(community health) course as proposed by govt is a right move towards improving the rural healthcare delivery system. It is unfortunate that this course has faced strong opposition from IMA, MCI and parliamentary committee on health.   According to rural health statistics 2011, rural India has a shortage of 76%doctors, 53%nurses, 88%specialist doctors, 85%radiographers and 80% laboratory technicians. In order to address this huge gap in human resources in health,BRHC was originally proposed by NRHM,based on the recommendations of its Task Force.   IMA in its opposition for the course states “Introducing separate set of professionals exclusively for rural india, Govt is resorting to discrimination against rural citizens, treating them as second class citizens, which violates the right to equality ...

A week back,when I logged into facebook,it has kept ready a petition from me to TRAI,which only requires me to press a 'submit' button to convey my support to the free basics(earlier called the  Internet.org ). This irritated me to the core.It shows how a company can use it's dominant position to fool the regulators. Facebook's aggressive campaign to save the free basics has received support from many facebook users. Unfortunately most of them did so,without fully understanding what it really is.        Free basics gives free access to a list websites, which satisfy the basic conditions set by it. Disguised as an attempt to bring digital equality and inclusiveness,it mainly is an attempt by facebook to ward off the threat for it's existence. As they are, technological innovations tend to become outdated within a short span of time,either because the original idea loses it's sheen or it is overcome by a new idea or innovation.As we can observe, when face...