Greenlighting Growth; Orwellian China; Arogya Ailments
Opinion Watch
Greenlighting Growth
The Indian Express has expressed joys in the IMF raising Indian growth outlook to 6.2 per cent along with the positive upgrade for emerging countries and the world economy as well. The Noida-based daily has also mentioned Fitch and the Asian Development Bank to build on its enthusiasm for a strong growth outlook for India. The daily indeed noted that the inflation may remain robust for a far longer timeframe.
Celebrating a 6.2 per cent growth rate on the back of low base effect of the pandemic must amount to be counted as courtiers, for India being a consumption economy and a younger demography will any day ensure a GDP growth of about six per cent. Visible evidences of unemployment, as well as low-wage economy, prove that there is abundant failure on the part of the government to make positive contributions to the economy.
Orwellian China
The Asian Age in its Editorial has argued that there will be no improvement in India-China relations even while the re-appointed Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is well-known to his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar. But the New Delhi-based daily rubbed salt to Indian government’s loud-mouthing on China by stating that the bilateral trade has ballooned to $115.2 billion in 2022, with balance of $110.2 billion in favour of Beijing. The Times of India also has sought to build on Indian loud-mouthing on border issue by spotlighting refusal to approve $1 billion investment of BYD, Chinese EV firm.
China exhales fire on rivals and yet make them dependent for their economic stability, and India, as well as Europe, is no exception. While China remains an Orwellian state, revealed in sacking of Qin Gang, who is replaced by Wang, the ‘Make In India’ slogan got just a snail’s pace all these years to cut down the Chinese imports significantly.
Arogya Ailments
The Economic Times in its Editorial has underlined that the empanelled hospitals with PM Jan Arogya Scheme, assuring treatments worth Rs 5 lakh, have gone from 27000 in 2018 to 18,783 now. The daily has reasoned that hospitals find package rates low, while reimbursements are delayed. The daily also rued that 59 per cent of the people lack health insurance plan.
Inefficiency to build robust public healthcare is generally covered with schemes, and PMJAY is also an admission on the part of the government that it failed to provide free and reliable public healthcare to the people.
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