Measures to address poverty and food insecurity

Case Study - Gumla in Jharkhand reduced poverty and malnutrition by Ragi cultivation (4) Inclusion and Exclusion evasion in government steps like NFSA, PDS [Chhattisgarh: 30% begur raten cand] (5) Corruption and leakage: reduces access to healthy food. (6) Rise of obesity due to high intake of junk food by youths. Measures to overcome: (1) promotion of infrastructural development to reduce wastage. (2) Computerisation of PDS to reduce leakage [Shanta Kumar Committee]

As per recent NHSS data, out of pocket expenditure for health remains at [14.7%] in India, thus necessitate stale of health insurance. Role of publicly funded healthcare infrastructure: (1) Removes inequality and made insurance available for all. eg. PM Jan Arogya Yojana and Ayushman Bharat (2) provides cushion to poor and newly out-of-poor category against health cost. (3) fulfils arena of democratic governance as Right to health is a fundamental right.

is a fundamental right. (4) Improves insurance penalty and insurance density in India. (5) reduces out-of-pocket expenditure which can be utilised for education, skill development. and nutritious food. Yet, there are few issues: a) Health expenditure stands at merely at [1.9%] of GDP which needs to be increased. b) beneficiary identification for health insurance is tedious and may leads to exclusion error. c) doctors reluctance and delaying in treatment of Ayushman Bharat patients.

Bharat patients. d) lack of inclusion of private hospitals in existing health insurance facilities. e) generation of one-product of all may impact the health. Way Ahead: (1) Corporate aiding via CSR can be utilised for health insurance (2) Increase CDP spending from 1.9% to 3% for robust insurance. (3) explore PPP for health insurance facility. By this, goal of SDG-3 and Article 4a,4f can be utilised by India and 37 trillion by 2030.