While the officials are busy preparing for the demands to be made from the Finance Commission, they are waiting for Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to be back from Jalandhar.
Addressing a press conference, Reddy said the government has also set itself a 500-day target to provide telecom connectivity across the region, including 4G network in 4,000 villages.
The Indian Express spoke to key officials in the Union Ministry of Finance; state Finance Ministers; Election Commission of India, Fifteenth Finance Commission, Niti Aayog, the Reserve Bank of India, and the Comptroller and Auditor General and found a consensus on three key issues.
Medical colleges may soon be allowed to run one additional course with an intake of 100 medical students, nurses could also be trained to prescribe 47 basic drugs. A one-year diploma course after MBBS for lab medicine and for ultrasound may be started.
The question is whether this will force the states to move on both the power sector reforms, which have proven challenging in the past, and the municipal reforms, so that their resource availability may be enhanced.
Iran mission uses donations to buy 40 tonnes of medicine, unable to send them home
India25 min ago
A 40-tonne shipment of medicines bought by the Iranian embassy in India is stranded in New Delhi due to a damaged aircraft. The embassy is seeking alternative ways to deliver the urgently needed medicines, as pharmaceutical companies in Iran are under attack.
