Source : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2018-12-17 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Education and related issues Ministry of Human Resource Development Various Scholarship Schemes of HRD Ministry for Students Posted On: 17 DEC 2018 5:41PM by PIB Delhi The Ministry of Human Resource Development is implementing the following important scholarship schemes: (i)…
DetailsSource : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2018-12-17 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Education and related issues Ministry of Human Resource Development UBA running successfully to bring transformational change in rural development process Posted On: 17 DEC 2018 5:42PM by PIB Delhi The Government has launched Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) on 11th November, 2014.…
DetailsSource : www.indianexpress.com Date : 2018-11-17 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Human resources & Sports and related issues Remember the fanfare and optimism over the launch of Skill India in July 2015, and the roadmap for skilling 400 million people by 2022 (World Youth Skills day)? Today, Skill India looks like a…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-28 SEVEN NORTHEASTERN STATES LAG BEHIND IN TOILETS FOR SCHOOLGIRLS Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Nationally, about 66.4% schools provide girls with toilets. An average of 34.96% schools in the eight northeastern States had usable toilets for girls in 2018 compared to 36.66%…
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Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-11-15 SETTING A PROPER DIET PLAN Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources | Topic: Poverty & Hunger and related issues Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India has been ranked at 103 out of 119 countries, with hunger levels categorised as “serious”, in the…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-12-09 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The debate over whether talcum powder poses serious health risks is in the spotlight again. A risk assessment draft on talc published by Health Canada, the country’s public health department, states that talcum powder…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-12-12 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Today, on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, I wonder how many readers are aware of what UHC is. According to the World Health Organisation, UHC means “ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access essential quality health…
DetailsSource : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2018-12-13 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Prime Minister inaugurates the Partners’ Forum, 2018 It is only partnerships that will get us to our goals: Prime Minister Posted On: 12 DEC 2018 6:04PM by PIB Delhi…
DetailsSource : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2018-12-29 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the 12th Global Healthcare Summit organized by the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin in Mumbai today. Speaking on the occasion, the President acknowledged…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-29 NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES TOP KILLERS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA: WHO Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — mainly cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer — continue to be the top killers in the South-East Asia Region, claiming 8.5 million lives…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-01 LS PASSES MEDICAL COUNCIL BILL Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill to allow a panel of eminent professionals to run the scam-tainted Medical Council of India (MCI) so…
DetailsSource: www.thehindu.com Date: 2019-01-03 LESSONS FROM KERALA Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Last year, in October at Astana, Kazakhstan, world leaders declared their commitment to ‘Primary Care’. They were reaffirming what their predecessors had done in Alma Ata in 1978. The Alma Ata Declaration, as…
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