The How To Fund Conundrum

The How To Fund Conundrum
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Agriculture
  • Higher public investment in agricultural research, rural infrastructure, and irrigation
  • Revival of the rural cooperative credit scheme, doubling the flow of rural credit, easing the debt and interest burden on farmers
  • Protecting the farmers from cheap imports when international prices fall
Education
  • Increasing the public spending in education to at least 6 per cent of GDP
  • Mid-day meal schemes in primary and secondary schools
Health
  • Increasing the public spending on health to at least 2-3 per cent of GDP
  • A national health insurance scheme for the poor
Employment
  • Minimum 100 days' employment to at least one person in every poor and lower-middle-class household
  • A food-for-work programme in the interim Massive support to small, informal, and unorganised sectors
  • Social security and health insurance for the small-scale workers
Food and Water
  • Special schemes to make food available to the destitute
  • Grain banks in food-scarce areas, desalination plants lining the Coromandel Coast
Infrastructure
  • Public investment in infrastructure to be enhanced
  • Massive expansion of social housing and housing for the rural poor
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