Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control
New Delhi, July 23 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that government// policy was against incentive-based population control measures and coercion of any control to achieve it would not be acceptable. Chairing the first meeting of the reconstituted National Commission on Population here, Manmohan Singh called for a three-pronged strategy focusing on the welfare of women and chil...Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Flags Off Public Health Foundation of India
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced the set-up of a public Health foundation of India, which will remedy the imbalances in the provision of health care services in the country. // This will be a public-private initiative that will redress the inequalities in financial management of resources and help in the efficient distribution of specializations in health care services. The...Manmohan Calls for Statistical Reforms in Healthcare and Education
Expressing concern over discrepancies in official data for key sectors like healthcare and education,// Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday called for a revamp of the national statistical system and upgrading its infrastructure. "Due to over-dependence on the administrative set up and traditional records, the (statistical) system has not been able to keep pace with changing times," Ma...Manmohan Singh to Meet UN Chief, Discuss Climate Change
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the 33rd Group of Eight (G-8) Summit on Thursday, besides giving India's viewpoint on greenhouse gas emissions and other aspects of global climate change. An External Affairs Ministry background paper states that while India has 17 per cent of the world...Manmohan Singh to Inaugurate Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Conference
New Delhi, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate a two-day conference on rural drinking water supply and sanitation here on Wednesday. The conference will focus on ensuring sustainability in drinking water supply projects and sanitation for all in the rural areas of the country by 2012. The conference will broadly focus on the issues, such as, progress und...