Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the National Tribal Research Institute in Delhi.
Over 100 tribal artisans and tribal dance troupes from across India showcased their indigenous products and performances.
The National Tribal Research Institute will be a premier national level institute. It will become a nerve centre of tribal concerns, matters and issues in academic, legislative and executive fields.
It will network and collaborate with reputed research institutes, organisations, universities, resource centres and academic bodies.
The institute will monitor projects of Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs), research scholars of NFS and Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
It will also set up norms to improve in quality of research and training.
Jun 07, 2022
NABARD Chairman Launches My Pad My Right Programme in Leh
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Chairman Dr GR Chintala launched "My Pad My Right programme", in Leh. The programme launched by Nabard's NabFoundation with machinery and materials of a cost of Seven and half Lakh rupees. Dr GR Chintala announced to sanction One more lakh to upgrade the machinery to make sanitary pads suitable to the demands of women of different age groups.
This efforts are on for economic empowerment of rural women through menstrual hygiene.
This will help women to participate in country's economic development. Under this unique project, award winning sanitary pad making machines will be installed through the network of self help groups.
Jun 06, 2022
'eSanjeevani' Integrated with NHA's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
The National Health Authority (NHA) said that the government's 'eSanjeevani' telemedicine service was integrated with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). This integration allows the existing eSanjeevani users to easily create their Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) and use it to link and manage their existing health records. The users would also be able to share their health records with doctors on eSanjeevani leading to better clinical decision making and ensuring the continuum of care.
The eSanjeevani service is available in two variants. The first one is eSanjeevani Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centre (AB-HWC), a doctor-to-doctor telemedicine service through which the beneficiaries visiting a health and wellness centre can virtually connect to doctors in the hub that could be at a tertiary healthcare facility, a hospital or a medical college. The second variant, eSanjeevani OPD is serving patients across the country by connecting them directly to doctors from the comforts of their homes.
Jun 04, 2022
Asia University Rankings 2022 by Times Higher Education (THE): 4 Indian Institutions in Top 100
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) continued to be the best institute from the country, being ranked at 42nd place in the latest Asia University Rankings 2022 by Times Higher Education (THE). Following IISc in the top 100 institutions from Asia were JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research at 65th place, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar at 68th rank and IIT Indore at 87th place. With 71 institutions as against 63 last year, India was the third most-represented country, behind Japan and mainland China. Further, there were 17 Indian universities in the top 200, down from 18 last year. Of the 14 that were ranked in both years, eight improved their rankings.
China is home to the continent's top two universities for the third consecutive year, with Tsinghua and Peking universities holding on to first and second place, respectively. Japan is the most-represented nation again this year, with 118 institutions, up from 116 last year.
Jun 03, 2022
Health Ministry Launches Two Month Long Covid-19 Vaccination Drive Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 Campaign
The Union Health Ministry launched the Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 campaign to speed up Covid-19 vaccination coverage across all eligible age groups. The aim of the two-month long campaign is to vaccinate and saturate the eligible population groups for first, second and precaution doses through door-to-door campaign. Chairman, India's COVID 19 working group, N. K. Arora, participated in a special discussion programme on the topic, Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 ki shuruat".
Major focus will also remain on improving sub-optimal coverage of persons aged ≥ 60years with precaution dose, along with considerably slower speed of coverage in the 12-14 years cohort by focussed campaigns for old age homes, schools/colleges including the out-of-school children (for focussed coverage of children aged 12-18 years population), prisons, brick kilns, etc. States/UTs have been urged to undertake effective monitoring with respective micro-plans based on due-lists of all eligible beneficiaries.
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