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Safe Motherhood, Public Provisioning and Health Financing in India

CBGA

• 1 January 2009
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Reduction of maternal deaths is an important concern and is also one of the Millennium Development Goals. Most recent policies have focused on the issue of maternal mortality as an isolated issue...

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Local Budgeting and People's Planning: A Study of PRIs in Rajasthan and Kerala

CBGA

• 1 January 2009
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There has been a growing concern on the slow pace of progress with regard to rural decentralisation despite the passage of the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments in 1992 spelling out the central...

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Report of the Gender Budgeting Study for West Bengal

CBGA

• 1 January 2006
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This report analyses the Budget of West Bengal in the year 2005-2006 to assess the priorities for women in its outlays, to evaluate the composition of the total outlay for women in the State Budget...

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Natural Disasters and Relief Provisions in India: Commitments and Ground Realities

CBGA

• 1 January 2004
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Since the commencement of the 9th Finance Commission, we have in place the Calamity Relief Fund (CRF) scheme of the Central Government for financing relief expenditure of States in the wake of...

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Rhetoric and Reality of MPLADS

CBGA

• 1 January 2004
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Since December 1993, Members of Parliament have been allotted funds annually to pursue developmental works in their constituencies – in 2004, the figure stood at Rs. 2 crore under MPLADS (Members...

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Decentralisation of Finance: A Study of Panchayat Finances in India

CBGA

• 1 January 2004
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The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, which was passed by Parliament in April 1993, gives Panchayats a constitutional status. The Constitution states that the PRIs have become the institution...

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