Health workers at a camp in Palghar (Image courtesy: Team Bhopoli)
As the second wave of Covid-19 seems to recede from the big cities, the focus is on the rural side. That is where more and more cases are coming up and that is where health infrastructure is especially weak. What needs to be done?
Can gram panchayats act as the first line of defence? To strengthen them and to provide grants to them, the finance ministry on Wednesday released Rs 8,923.8 crore to 25 states, following a recommendation of the ministry of panchayati raj. Also, the health ministry issued SOPs on Covid-19 containment and management for the countryside including awareness campaigns. Among other measures, its guidelines direct states to open 30-bed makeshift Covid care centres in panchayats, depute AYUSH doctors and community health officials and conduct rapid antigen tests.
Aadhaar and surveillance as governance
BOOK EXCERPT: How Aadhaar initiates a new era where ID systems would create personalised profiles of beneficiaries to ultimately determine whether they (otherwise eligible) even deserve to avail the said benefits
Shivangi Narayan | May 20, 2021
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Shivangi Narayan’s ‘Surveillance as Governance: Aadhaar, Big Data in Governance’ is a valuable addition to the literature on the new identification system that is changing the architecture of state welfare schemes while also creating new structures of surveillance.
This book is a humble attempt to look at how the needs of information of the ruling bodies have led to the development of identification systems across history. It tries to understand how Aadhaar is a break from the older system where the role of ID systems was limited to identifying the beneficiary correctly, and initiates a new era where ID systems would create personalised profiles of beneficiaries to u
Daily recoveries outnumber daily new cases for the 6th consecutive day
GN Bureau | May 19, 2021
Health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan inspecting the newly installed oxygen plant and the construction progress of new prefabricated COVID Blocks, at Safdarjung Hospital, in New Delhi on Wednesday
India’s devastating second wave seems to be waning, as the number of daily cases remained below 3 lakh for the third consecutive day on Wednesday and the daily positivity rate declined to 13.31%. About 20 lakh tests were conducted in 24 hours, which is a new record, even as above 64 lakh beneficiaries in the 18-44 age group have been vaccinated.
Also, daily recoveries outnumber daily new cases for the sixth consecutive day. As many as 3,89,851 recoveries were registered in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning, according to an official bulletin.
AGMs to go virtual in future, says India Inc. ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 18:01 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 6 (ANI/NewsVoir): The year 2020 saw a meteoric rise in the adoption of digital technologies across all business functions including stakeholder engagement.
As the hybrid workplace becomes a reality, India Inc. feels it is essential to embrace virtual as a virtue to fortify trust and deepen engagement with stakeholders.
Bringing together the pioneers of stakeholder engagement, Chorus Call India, a leading conferencing solutions provider, organized a first-of-its-kind virtual symposium to delve into the nuances of shareholder management in the virtual world. The event saw participation from industry stalwarts such as Suresh Narayanan, Chairman and MD at Nestle India Ltd., Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Aarin Capital and Manipal Global Education and a Padma Shree awardee, JN Gupta, Co-founder and MD, SES and former Executive Director,
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New Delhi: Homegrown micro-blogging platform Koo on Tuesday announced to launch a unique feature that will help users speak and type messages without using the keyboard in regional languages, apart from English.
Called ‘Talk to Type, the feature will help Koo users speak out their thoughts and the words will show up on the screen at the click of a button. This ‘Talk to Type feature is magical and takes creation for regional language creators to the next level. Users don t have to use the keyboard anymore and type out lengthy thoughts, said Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-founder, Koo.