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A first step

 National Health Protection Mission requires a bold, holistic(समग्र) approach
 NDA government‟s scheme to provide health cover of ₹5•lakh per year to 10 crore poor and
vulnerable families through Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission has taken
a step forward with the Union Cabinet approving the modalities of its implementation
 Just over a year, available before the term of the present government ends, urgent action
is needed to roll out such an ambitious scheme.
 Partnership with the States need to be set up
 States- Statutory responsibility for provision of health care, have to act quickly
 Also enable much-needed regulatory control over pricing of hospital-based treatments
 Universal health coverage is defined by theWHO as a state when “all people obtain the health
services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them”
 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
 Challenging task- Make this a reality, and the government will have to work hard to put it in place

Rising risks

U.S. continues to raise benchmark rates, India should take precautionary steps
Interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.50-1.75%, the highest in a decade.
While this is only the sixth rate increase since the financial crisis of 2008
Which pushed central banks to cut interest rates to historic lows
Fed under its new Chairman Jerome Powell
Is expected to raise rates two more times in 2018
The London Interbank Offered Rate, which is the rate at which international banks
lend to each other and serves as a benchmark for lending rates, has risen for more than
30 consecutive sessions and is at its highest since the financial crisis
The impact on the wider credit markets
Trade wars clearly have a negative impact on global growth and corporate earnings
India-Could be hit by fund outflows as overseas investors look homeward to benefit

Tibet is not a card

 Ease tensions with China
 Cancellation of several public events related toTibet.
 Deteriorating ties To begin with, ties between New
Delhi and Beijing have deteriorated over the past few years for a number of reasons unconnected
to the Dalai Lama and theTibetan population in India: border incursions,
including the standoff at part of Doklam claimed by Bhutan; India‟s strategic shift in line
U.S.‟s Indo-Pacific pivot that targets China; China‟s„deep pocket‟ inroads into South Asia;
and differences on the international stage , including over the Nuclear Suppliers Group
membership and terror designations to Masood Azhar
 Ongoing demographic shift inTibet-Encouraging mixed marriages
 Outflow of refugees fromTibet has been curtailed
 Bollywood DVDs- Replaced by Chinese andTibetan films
Delhi High Court (Namgyal Dolkar v. Government of India) and must give citizenship
to allTibetan refugees born between 1950 and 1987
There is an urgent need for community outreach, surveys and a referendum,
if necessary, to map what theTibetan community in India wants in its future.
For those who want to make India a permanent home, especially those in the new
generation, India must reconsider its citizenship laws.
Above all, the Indian foreign policy establishment needs to stop seeing theTibetan
population in India as a strategic tool.

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
Page-1- Office-of-profit issue: Delhi HC reinstates 20 AAP MLAs
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
 Page-1- BJP bags 12 seats, Cong. 5 in Rajya Sabha elections
 Ruling party wins all the 9 U.P. seats it contested
 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 12 of the 25 Rajya Sabha seats across six
States for which biennial elections were held on Friday, along with a bypoll in one State.
 In all, 33 candidates from 10 States were earlier declared elected unopposed
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
Page-1- U.S. President Donald Trump replaced
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
Page-1- Nearly seven years after sparking off a nationwide
anti-corruption movement with his fast in the Capital,
social activist Anna Hazare was back at the Ramlila
grounds on Friday,commencing an indefinite hunger strike. Mr. Hazare said,
“Is baar, ya to aar ya paar [It‟s either now or never]”.
Demanded immediate implementation of the Lokpal
Act, solution to the agrarian distress in the country
and a better electoral process
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
Centre issues notice to Cambridge Analytica
“The Ministry of Electronics & InformationTechnology, Government of India has
issued a notice
Accused of misusing data of 50 million Facebook users
The government has sent a notice to U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica — accused
of misusing data of 50 million Facebook users — asking
it to disclose if data of Indian users was used, and to name
the entities that used their services.
The firm has been asked to reply by March 31.