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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - July 2019

Jul 2019

Jun 10, 2022

Five Indian Schools Shortlisted for First-ever World's Best School Prizes

Five inspirational Indian schools were named in the top-10 shortlists across different categories for the inaugural USD 2,50,000 World's Best School Prizes, launched in the UK to celebrate schools worldwide for their enormous contribution to society's progress.
SVKM's CNM School in Mumbai and SDMC Primary School Lajpat Nagar III in New Delhi have both been named in the top 10 shortlist for World's Best School Prize for Innovation. Khoj School in Mumbai and PCMC English Medium School, Bopkhel, in Pune are among the top 10 schools shortlisted for the prize in the Community Collaboration category.
The World's Best School Prizes are founded by UK-headquartered digital media platform T4 Education in partnership with Accenture, American Express, Yayasan Hasanah, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Lemann Foundation. The three finalists for each of the five prizes – Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives – will be announced in October 2022. The winners of the World's Best School Prizes will be announced in same month at World Education Week, when a prize of USD 2,50,000 will be equally shared among the winners of the five prizes, with each receiving an award of USD 50,000.

IISc is Top Indian University in Global Rankings, Overtakes IITs

Rising 31 places in a year, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru emerged as the highest ranked Indian institute in the 2023 edition of the QS World University rankings, pushing IIT-Bombay to the second position, followed by IIT-Delhi.
Apart from IISc at 155, IIT-Bombay (IIT-B) and IIT-Delhi (IIT-D), which have risen five and 11 places to rank 172 and 174 respectively, are the only other Indian institutes in the global league of top 200, in continuation of a trend since 2017. The total number of Indian institutes among the top 1,000 globally has risen to 27 from 22.
QS spokesperson William Barbieri attributed the remarkable rise of IISc, which is one of the eight public Institutes of Eminence (IoE), to improvement across four out of six parameters based on which the rankings are prepared.
These parameters are — academic reputation (AR), employer reputation (ER), faculty-student ratio (FSR), citations per faculty (CpF), international faculty ratio and international students' ratio.

Jun 09, 2022

Union Health Minister Releases FSSAI's 4th State Food Safety Index on World Food Safety Day

On the occasion of World Food Safety Day, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya released the 4th State Food Safety Index. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) compiled the report to assess states' performance across five food safety categories. The winning State/UTs based on the rating for the year 2021-22 were additionally honoured by the Health Minister for their outstanding performance across five food safety metrics.
The Health Minister also congratulated the 11 winning smart cities of the EatSmart Cities Challenge, which was launched by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in collaboration with the Smart Cities Mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs last year (MoHUA). He also presented the Eat Right Research Challenge for Cities and Districts, as well as the Eat Right Research Awards and Grants, to the recipients.

Jun 08, 2022

National Tribal Research Institute

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.

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