Government of India Plans to Address Factors which Generate Poverty – Montel Singh Ahluwalia
Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on March 29, 2010 under Interviews, News, Video | 
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“Anything which promotes growth is surely also going to remove poverty. We are trying to improve access to education, to health services… Health is a key element in human welfare. Poverty is not to be just defined in income earning possibility, it is also access to essential service… like health, electrification, clean drinking water, sanitation. These are very important part in the efforts to remove poverty and the Government is involved in all of them.”
“India spends about the same proportion on Heath as other countries do, but the Government spends much less and much more expenditure is done on the private sector. Our feeling is that the Government needs to spend much more in order to strengthen health services… which is why we have launched the National Rural Health Mission and Rashtriya Swasth Bima Yojana (a government subsidized insurance)”
