EPTRI, ASCI to collaborate on climate change, waste management
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Hyderabad, June 2 : The Environment Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) on Wednesday signed an MoU with the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) for collaborating in the areas of climate change, urban environmental management, and urban water and sanitation management, and related fields.
In his remarks on the occasion, Telangana Special Chief Secretary and EPTRI Director General Adhar Sinha said that the MoU will help both the organisations in strengthening the projects on climate change, urban environmental management, urban water and sanitation, municipal waste water management etc at international, national and state level.
Not very long ago, India was touted by the WHO as an unlikely success story in taming Covid-19. Several Western agencies and media outlets went gung-ho with wonderment as to how India managed to significantly lower the spread of infection and fatality rates. They were of course premature opinions and India is currently grappling with a formidable second wave. While the chorus has gradually grown louder for a complete national lockdown, it is ironic that the experts are still debating whether the focus should be on speeding up the vaccination drive along with Covid-appropriate behaviour or a total India shutdown.
Officials said going by the sharp surge in the cases, Hyderabad is set to break the highest single day record very soon (Picture used for representational purpose only)
HYDERABAD: The second wave apparently hit Greater Hyderabad hard as the city on Wednesday crossed one lakh Covid-19 cases. Since the time the pandemic broke out in March 2020 in Telangana, positive cases in the city have seen an upward trend. GHMC’s maximum case load now stands at 1,00,881, while the state’s total number of cases stand at 4,19,966.
The health department’s Covid chart for Greater Hyderabad is not alarming when compared to metros like Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru where the spike in cases is alarming. But, Hyderabad continues to be the epicentre of positive cases in the state, a fact corroborated by health officials themselves. In the last 24 hours alone, the GHMC reported 1,508 cases, the highest in a single day this year.
IIM-Vizag Director recollects his association with former RBI Governor, ASCI Chairman Narasimham
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TNN | Apr 23, 2021, 15:53 IST
Former RBI Governor, M Narasimham
VISAKHAPATNAM: I belong to the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) family. This is how I fondly remember Shri Maidavolu Narasimham, who breathed his last on April 20, after a long and distinguished career in the government and multilateral agencies, and later as Principal, Vice Chairman, Chairman and Emeritus Chairman of ASCI, leaving an indelible impression and unforgettable impact.
Narasimham is no stranger to those whose interests lay in the economy. He authored the oft-quoted and religiously practiced banking sector reforms, seminal in many respects, popular as Narasimham Committee Reforms I&II.
M Narasimham, Father of Indian Banking Reforms, is No More
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Born at Nellore on 3 June 1927 Maidavolu Narasimham, father of financial and banking Reforms breathed last on 20 April 2021. This 94-year-old legend in banking was the only person joining the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a research officer in the department of research and statistics, to return as governor of RBI for the shortest period of seven months, after serving the government of India as additional secretary in the department of economic affairs in 1972. He was secretary for banking from where he rose to the position of governor of RBI.Â
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In the words of his mentee, Dr YV Reddy, former governor of RBI, M Narasimham is a ‘gentleman and statesman’.Â