Covid-19 flagged issues with health spends; lack of resources: Bibek Debroy

The EAC-PM chairman Bibek Debroy said it is also important to get data as decentralised as possible

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy on Monday said the Covid-19 pandemic has flagged the issue of health expenditure and reprioritisation of public expenditure is required keeping in view the paucity of resources.

Debroy also said that one of the lessons from the ongoing crisis is that a lot depends on decentralisation of governance as there is heterogeneity of governance in India.

Speaking at the virtual 'Statistics Day' event of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI),