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New Government Schemes and Programs Announced in Union Budget 2024-25

Union Budget 2024-25 outlined a comprehensive vision for India's transformation into a 'Viksit Bharat' or Developed India by 2047. The budget prioritized nine key areas: agriculture, employment, skilling, human development, manufacturing, services, urban development, energy security, infrastructure, innovation, and next-generation reforms.

The budget was underpinned by a strong focus on inclusive growth, with significant allocations for sectors like agriculture, education, healthcare, and social welfare. It emphasized job creation, skill development, and infrastructure development as crucial drivers of economic growth. Additionally, the budget prioritized energy security through investments in renewable energy sources and nuclear power.

To achieve the ambitious goal of a developed India, the government introduced several flagship schemes, including the Purvodaya plan for the eastern region, the PM Surya Ghar initiative for rooftop solar, the Atmanirbhar Oil Seeds Abhiyan, employment-linked incentive schemes, a new skilling program, the Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan, a credit guarantee scheme for MSMEs, and NPS Vatsalya.

These initiatives are designed to address specific challenges and create opportunities across various sectors of the economy.

Overall, Budget 2024-25 presented a roadmap for India's progress towards becoming a developed nation, with a strong emphasis on inclusive growth, job creation, and infrastructure development.

Explore the Full List of Schemes from the 2024-25 Union Budget

Viksit Bharat: The Blueprint for a Developed India

The Union Budget 2024-25 introduced the ambitious vision of 'Viksit Bharat' (Developed India) by 2047. This overarching goal encompasses a multi-faceted approach to propel India towards economic prosperity, social progress, and environmental sustainability.

Purvodaya: Developing India's Eastern Region

A cornerstone of the Viksit Bharat initiative is the 'Purvodaya' plan, designed to accelerate the development of India's eastern region. States like Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, and Andhra Pradesh will be at the heart of this development push.

Infrastructure Development: Significant investments in transportation, energy, and digital connectivity are planned to improve the region's infrastructure.

Human Capital Development: Focus on education, healthcare, and skill development will be crucial to enhancing the region's human capital.

Economic Growth: The government aims to create a conducive environment for businesses and industries to thrive, generating employment opportunities and boosting economic growth.

By transforming the eastern region into a growth engine, the government aims to reduce regional disparities and contribute significantly to India's overall development.

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Piramal Swasthya Supports Government of Assam’s Sarathi 104 Helpline; Attends to More Than 1 Lakh Calls in a Month

Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute in partnership with National Health Mission (NHM) and Government of Assam is collectively working to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The Sarathi 104 Health Helpline has been offering 24x7 medical advice on COVID-19 to callers every day. In order to deal with increased number of calls, the frontline staff team has been significantly expanded. Paramedics, counsellors and doctors, are relentlessly attending to calls related to health advice, counselling, information sharing and reporting of COVID 19.

Post the lockdown announced by the Government of Assam on March 22, 2020, the team has collectively reached out to 20,656 quarantined people of Assam through outbound calls and additionally attended over 1,32,690 incoming calls till April 10, 2020. Over 80% of these calls have been related to seeking guidance and advice on COVID-19.

Below are the details related to the calls:

Incoming calls: The beneficiaries reach out to Sarathi 104 Health Helpline to report symptoms and seek advice. They also report suspect cases who are breaking the quarantine. The team also proactively shares information on COVID-19, how it spreads, and preventive measures with the help of trained paramedics, doctors and counsellors. On an average, the team has been attending to approximately 8000 calls in a day post the outbreak and lockdown. This number has been steadily increasing

ii. Outbound calls: The Health Helpline team, under the directions of the National Health Mission, Government of Assam, also proactively reaches out to an exhaustive list of individuals who have migrated to Assam and have been asked to quarantine themselves at home. The quarantined individuals are contacted to check on their well-being, symptoms developed if any and adherence to quarantine. In the past 1 week, a total of 20,656 calls have been made to such individuals. Doctors from our telemedicine centre have also made video calls to these individuals to check on their health and provide medical advice

Support in contact tracing: In order to contain spread of the virus, Honorable Health Minister, Government of Assam, Shri. Himanta Biswa Sarma, made an appeal to the citizens on reporting any individual with a travel history to any place outside Assam via Sarathi 104. Since then the center has received calls from all across Assam. People are coming forward and voluntarily reporting the cases. This information is shared on real-time with the Government to provide necessary support to the individual. The 104 Helpline has also served as a nodal point for contact tracing to help curb the spread of infection.

As a support to the district administration, Piramal Swasthya’s on-field team consisting of Government of Assam’s Sanjeevani-Village Health Outreach Program, with 80 Mobile Medical Units manned by more than 350 paramedics and support staff are actively engaged in field screening. The team is involved in checking on the health and wellbeing of quarantined individuals across all districts of Assam. In coordination with district health authorities, the team has screened 2730 individuals so far. Further, the Field Officers of Prevention of Parents to Child Transmission of HIV project has been doing home delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and cotrimoxazole preventive therapy (CPT) medicines to number of positive pregnant women and their spouses in remote locations across Assam.

Paresh Parasnis, CEO, Piramal Foundation said, “We at Piramal Swasthya continue to work in partnership with Government, in the remotest part of the country, to address the COVID-19 pandemic. While the country is under a lockdown for safety, our team is working round-the-clock to ensure that there is enough awareness related to Covid-19 among the marginalized communities. In Assam, through Sarathi 104 Health Helpline, we have provided validated information as per the guidelines of WHO and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to 1,35,727 beneficiaries in the month of March 2020. This initiative has helped in bringing down the anxiety and fear in the society caused due to the corona virus.”

Additional Support from the Government of Assam:

Piramal Swasthya’s 104 team is working relentlessly to support the Government of Assam in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. To support them and ensure their wellbeing, Government of Assam has approved dedicated vehicles for pick and drop. These vehicles are sanitized after each trip. Special seating arrangements are made at the Centre for them to follow social distancing and preventive measures for sanitization of the work space are taken as per process. The State Government has also supported the team by providing hand sanitizers, masks, necessary training on COVID 19, counselling support, relaxing exercises to handle stress and snacks. The Nodal Officer, Government of Assam. Also organised 100 volunteers, given the increase in number of calls. These volunteers are mostly involved in making outbound calls to home quarantined individuals.

The 104 Health Helpline of Government of Assam was set up in partnership with Piramal Swasthya and NHM in 2010, to provide affordable and accessible healthcare to the most vulnerable sections of the community.

Apart from Assam, Piramal Swasthya has been supporting beneficiaries through 104 Health Helpline across 6 states (Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Karnataka and Bihar) in partnership with the state government.

About Piramal Swasthya

Piramal Swasthya, under the aegis of Piramal Foundation, is focused on bridging public healthcare gaps by supplementing and complementing Government of India’s vision to meet Universal Health Care for all. Piramal Swasthya is one of the largest not-for-profit organizations in India - in the primary public health care space with a focus on Maternal health, Child and Adolescent Health, Non-communicable diseases. Piramal Swasthya is operational in 21 states in India through 35 innovative public health care delivery programs and has served more than 11.2 Crore beneficiaries so far. Piramal Swasthya employs 2500+ employees (including over 250 medical doctors) who work with Seva-Bhav. Over the last twelve years, the focus has been on, building platforms for sustainable impact at scale, Innovations to scale as a journey, Influencing policies, governance, and accountability of the public health care system as a knowledge and implementation partner of the NITI Aayog. @PiramalS

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acoolchristianchick · 6 years ago

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India's Biometric ID System Has Led To Starvation For Some Poor, Advocates Say

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Ashok Kumar (foreground) works at a food ration distribution shop in Jharkhand. He uses a small machine to scan people's fingerprints and check them against Aadhaar ID numbers.

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India has 1.3 billion people, and no equivalent of the Social Security number. About 4 in 10 births go unregistered. Less than 2 percent of the population pays income tax.

Many more are eligible for welfare benefits but may never have collected them, either because they can't figure out how or a middleman stole their share.

To try to address these issues, the Indian government rolled out the biggest biometric ID system in the world. It's voluntary, but in just eight years, India has managed to collect the fingerprints, photos and iris scans of more than 1.2 billion people.

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The government says this system, called Aadhaar — "foundation" in Hindi — has helped to distribute welfare to the country's neediest; streamline the civil service; purge hundreds of thousands of names from voter rolls; and allow for people to move between states without losing benefits.

But privacy advocates are alarmed that the government has collected so much personal data. And advocates for the poor say some technical glitches have actually led to denial of benefits — even costing lives.

Collecting biometrics

Here's how Aadhaar works: An applicant goes to an Indian post office or ID enrollment center and shows proof of address and identity. (In cases where people don't have a fixed address, or any ID, another Indian can legally vouch for them.)

An Aadhaar enrollment worker scans applicants' irises, takes their fingerprints and photos, and assigns them a unique 12-digit number. The biometric data are stored on government servers. Several weeks later, an ID card arrives in the mail.

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The rollout was accompanied by a big patriotic PR campaign, with TV ads showing smiling elderly people using Aadhaar to collect state pensions and villagers using it to collect food rations.

It was geared especially to India's poor.

Helping the poor

"In India, you're nothing without Aadhaar," says Manisha Kamble, 17, who is homeless.

Kamble is from the Dalit community — formerly known as untouchables. She, her widowed mother and about 25 other street children sleep every night on the asphalt in a circle, under a highway overpass in Mumbai.

She had no address and no birth certificate. She was basically invisible to the state, until the charity Save the Children helped her enroll in Aadhaar.

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It has helped her get into a decent school. She is looking forward to turning 18, when she can use her Aadhaar to register to vote.

Kamble says she is proud to be counted, to become official, to feel equal to other Indian citizens, regardless of caste.

"I want to study and make sure that there are no more Manishas like me, who have to struggle like I did — and I want to take care of my mom," she says.

Kamble studies at night under streetlights and got the highest marks in her class last spring.

Uses for Aadhaar

Aadhaar can be used to verify your identity when you do anything involving the government — get married, pay taxes or draw welfare — and also when you open a bank account, sign up for a cellphone contract, or set up an e-wallet online. It's mandatory for some state health benefits.

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The system is designed to cut fraud — after all, it's hard to counterfeit your irises.

But it requires electricity to scan people's biometrics, and Internet access to check them against government databases. You'll find those in India's big cities. In poorer places, you often don't.

Technical difficulties

In Jharkhand, one of India's poorest states, Aadhaar is mandatory for food rations. A long line forms outside a tiny stucco booth, painted lavender, with a corrugated metal roof. It's a government food ration shop. Inside, the distributor scoops out rice, weighs it and delivers it to customers.

More than half of Indians are eligible for free or subsidized food. In rural Jharkhand, the figure is 86 percent.

The government says Aadhaar has helped eliminate nearly 30 million fake or duplicate food ration cards.

Ashok Kumar distributes government food rations to customer Leela Devi at his shop near Ramgarh, in India's Jharkhand state.

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At this ration shop, Ashok Kumar, 57, scans people's fingerprints with something that looks like a credit card machine. It runs on batteries and needs a 3G or 4G cellphone signal.

But the network is shaky. Kumar walks across the street, lifting his machine up overhead, until he finally gets a signal. He sets up shop instead on the steps of a Hindu temple.

One by one, he types people's Aadhaar numbers into the machine and then asks them to place their fingers on a small scanner. The machine checks their numbers against biometric data on government servers and prints out a receipt for food rations — bags of rice.

But one customer isn't so lucky. Karu Bhuiya, 48, has done manual labor all his life. His fingertips are worn. Kumar tries to scan them five times, but gets an error message.

The machine here is rudimentary, and only scans fingerprints — not irises. So Bhuiya is turned away. He goes home without food.

Pushed to starvation

Technical difficulties like this are blamed for pushing some of India's poorest into starvation. Jean Dreze, a Belgian-born economist who lives in Jharkhand, says he has counted a dozen such deaths in recent months. He provided NPR with a detailed list of their names and circumstances surrounding their deaths.

Women harvest rice in rural Jharkhand, one of India's poorest states, where at least a dozen people have died from starvation amid glitches in welfare distribution.

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"I would actually prefer to call these destitution deaths, because they're all cases of people who went hungry for days, who would have survived if they had had some resources," Dreze says. "See, this is the unfortunate thing: that the most vulnerable people are those who are also more likely to be excluded by this system."

When Aadhaar scanners break down, there's supposed to be a backup system on paper. But at the ration shop NPR visited, near the town of Ramgarh, the paper log was blank — unused.

Aadhaar's architect

"Nobody should be denied benefits — either for lack of Aadhaar, or for lack of authentication," says Nandan Nilekani, the key architect of the nation's Aadhaar system. "There have been some challenges, but that doesn't take away from the enormous benefit of empowerment, mobility and savings this project has given India."

Nilekani is the former CEO of Infosys, a big Indian IT and consulting company. He is a tech billionaire who left the private sector to create Aadhaar for the Indian government.

In an interview in May, Nilekani told NPR that the benefits of Aadhaar far outweigh any glitches.

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"Our whole goal is to give people control. They should be able to get their digital footprint from their smartphone, from their payments, from whatever," Nilekani said. "I'm using my own data to make my life better. That's a fundamental inversion of how you think about data."

Nilekani is from Bangalore, India's version of Silicon Valley. His critics questionwhether a private sector "move fast and break things" approach is appropriate for a government program like Aadhaar. They argue the fundamental job of government is different — to protect the most vulnerable citizens, rather than race to be the most high-tech.

That debate was underway when suddenly reports of data breaches began.

Data privacy

In January, investigative journalist Rachna Khaira discovered that the laptops of some Aadhaar enrollment workers — those who scan irises and take fingerprints — had been hacked. Khaira managed to buy access to up to 1 billion people's Aadhaar data — for less than $7.

After her report, the government agency behind Aadhaar, the Unique Identification Authority of India, took legal action against Khaira, accusing her of cybercrime.

"I am not against Aadhaar," Khaira says. "My only concern was this: that if we implement this project, it should be foolproof. We should not be scared. We should not be feeling jittery about giving out our Aadhaar numbers."

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Keeping people's Aadhaar data secure is not just a job for the Indian government, though. One of the ways it managed to enroll so many people was by partnering with banks, utilities and cellphone providers, many of which require Aadhaar.

So now people's data reside with all those companies as well. It's impossible to know how many data breaches have occurred. In India, the newspapers carry reports of them almost daily.

"When it comes to Aadhaar, it's the Wild West out there in India. Millions and millions of people have been compromised by the process," says Nikhil Pahwa, a privacy activist and founder of the digital news site MediaNama. "I see this as a major national security risk."

Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, has also criticized Aadhaar, calling it a mass surveillance system that will lead to "civil death" for Indians.

Supreme Court weighs in

Data privacy advocates have taken their concerns all the way to India's Supreme Court. Last year, the court ruled that privacy is a fundamental right.

Then last week, it ruled that private companies can no longer ask for people's Aadhaar data. It also said schools can no longer require biometrics for admission.

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But the information is already out there, being used by marketing companies — and possibly by political parties.

In August, the Unique Identification Authority of Indiaintroduced new directives to enhance security, including two-factor identification using facial recognition.

A small number of residents of India, including the economist Dreze, have nevertheless refused to enroll in Aadhaar.

In India, though, data privacy is still mostly a concern of the educated, urban class. People in the food ration line may not be as worried about their digital footprint. They have more dire concerns.

Those most vulnerable

Not far from the ration shop NPR visited in rural Jharkhand, migrant workers huddle in sagging thatch huts covered with blue tarps, during the monsoon rains. They are members of India's tribal Adivasi community, who are among the country's poorest citizens. They often migrate between states, with no fixed addresses.

In June, one of the men in their community, Chintaman Malhar, died at age 50. Relatives say he hadn't eaten in days. Based on his field work, Dreze, the economist, concluded that Malhar had lived in a "state of semi-starvation."

Nisha Devi lives in a rudimentary hut covered with a tarp near Ramgarh, in India's Jharkhand state. She believes hunger led to her uncle's recent death before he could get an Aadhaar card. The rest of the family has scrambled to enroll since his death, but Devi has been unable to draw welfare benefits so far.

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Malhar died before he could get an Aadhaar card. After his death, his relatives and neighbors all rushed to try to enroll.

"A local official came and advised us all to enroll in Aadhaar," says Malhar's niece, Nisha Devi, cradling her toddler. "He told us it would help us get residency, and finally have an official address, and get benefits."

She believes hunger killed her uncle, and she wants to avoid a similar fate.

Devi hasn't yet been able to collect any food rations. She is still mired in bureaucracy.

But she hopes that Aadhaar — perhaps the world's most sophisticated biometric system — might one day help her.

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India’s Supreme Court says privacy is a fundamental right in blow to government

By Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, August 24, 2017

NEW DELHI--India’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that privacy is a fundamental right, dealing a blow to the government’s effort to force all Indians to enroll in a massive identification system and paving the way for a possible expansion of civil liberties.

Over the past few years, the government has pushed to compile the world’s largest biometric database, known as Aadhar, by sending officials out to remote villages to take iris scans and fingerprints. To ensure complete enrollment, the government this year restricted access to essential government services for anyone not in the system.

The unanimous ruling by the nine-judge bench will have implications in a number of ongoing cases involving Aadhar, which means “base” or “foundation” in Hindi.

It could put an end to the government’s efforts to make enrollment mandatory. It also guarantees privacy for Indian citizens as an intrinsic right, a move that could have far reaching implications beyond biometric IDs for the daily lives of Indians.

Activists say the court’s message to the government is loud and clear: “This judgment says that the people of this country have rights, in case you’ve forgotten,” said Usha Ramanathan, an independent law researcher and activist.

With the right to privacy now guaranteed, opponents of Aadhar expect favorable rulings on petitions against the efforts to make enrollment mandatory.

The government says that Aadhar is crucial for better governance and can save Indian taxpayers billions of rupees by reducing welfare and tax fraud. In court, government lawyers argued that the right of all citizens to a dignified life was more important than privacy in a country like India where millions still live in desperate poverty.

But at least one government official made a quick turnabout once the court ruled.

Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of law and justice and information technology, issued a statement saying: “Today’s judgment of the Supreme Court is a welcome judgment as it strengthens fundamental rights and personal liberty.”

Activists say that such an extensive collection of data is vulnerable to leaks and misuse, endangering the privacy of a sixth of the world’s population.

In extraordinary hearings, government lawyers dredged up old rulings to argue that Indians did not have a fundamental right to privacy. “It’s a very dramatic thing when a government goes to court and says that,” said Ramanathan. “It sets the government against the people.”

In recent months, government notices said that as part of the Aadhar program, Indians would have to use a 12-digit unique identification number, known as the UID, to participate in almost every aspect of civic life--filing income tax returns, applying for railway job s or opening bank accounts.

Government rules especially targeted the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society, Ramanathan said, by restricting access to services such as free midday meals and allowances for tuberculosis patients.

Unlike social security numbers, UIDs would be accessible to various government agencies and private organizations. In recent months, government websites have mistakenly released thousands of UIDs.

“They want a system where you’d have to enter that number to get basic things you were entitled to, where you’d have to give your thumbprint to get your rations, your wages which you’d worked for, or pensions for the elderly,” Ramanathan said.

Reetika Khera, an economist at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, said the government could potentially use Aadhar as a surveillance program. “They will be able to say for example that I went on the train from Delhi to Jharkhand, where I got off, withdrew so much cash, then went to forest of Mahuadanr and conclude that she must be funding Naxalites [an insurgent rebel group] whereas I’ve actually gone to supervise research in the forest.”

“Even during the Emergency we didn’t have that,” said Ramanathan, referring to a three-year period from 1975-1977 when the government ruled by decree. “During the Emergency, they took away citizens’ ability to defend their right to privacy in court. Here they’re trying to take away the right itself.”

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Three years of Modi: Pro-training policies introduced

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Three years of Modi: Pro-training policies introduced

Speaking to Moneycontrol, Rohin Kapoor, Director, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP says, “Over the ultimate three years, Indian training region has witnessed a chain of flagship program bulletins whose on ground effect is yet to be stated.” Three years of Modi: Pro-training guidelines announced, however, effect but to be visible

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Access to basic training and proper vitamins remains the backbone of any developing country. Making sure that every toddler acquires at least excessive-school schooling is an ought to and need to be handled as a fundamental right underneath strict supervision.

Despite various reforms and provisions made for the welfare of the poor and decrease-middle class of India due to the fact independence, truthful and just implementation of those schemes constantly remained a large mission because of corruption.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rose to energy 3 years in the past at the schedule of improvement and eradicating poverty. “If the negative are empowered, then they have got sufficient electricity to relieve poverty. Politics may be done through retaining the negative poor. But freedom from poverty can handiest come by using empowerment. The largest device for empowerment is training,” he had stated in an interview with Network18.

Speaking to Moneycontrol, Rohin Kapoor, Director, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP says, “Over the last three years, the Indian schooling region has witnessed a sequence of flagship program bulletins whose on-ground impact is but to be said.”

Some of the maximum popular policy interventions encompass Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, e-Pathshala, Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyaan for primary/secondary education and SWAYAM, GIAN & domestic rating framework in higher education, Kapoor says.

“Despite the huge want and requirements of the sector, the public expenditure as a percent of GDP continues to be low compounded with the aid of loss of readability on the assertion of the revised National Policy on Education & function of private/foreign universities,” Kapoor similarly provides.

For FY18(BE), the finances for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) became extended by Rs one thousand crores, and that for Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), instructor training and person schooling, has been extended by Rs 305 crore in comparison to the revised Budget estimate for FY17.

The mid-day meals scheme, which keeps standing issues and plenty grievance for the reason that inception, gets simplest Rs three hundred crores greater.

India has reduced its spending on training from 4.4 percentage of GDP in 1999 to round three.Seventy-one percent as according to this year’s Budget estimate, undermining the work finished in getting extra children into faculty, and its potentialities for improving its terrible first-rate of education.

RTE Act mandates all the non-public schools to order 25 percent of the seats for children belonging to socially disadvantaged and economically weaker sections. This provision of the Act is geared toward furthering social inclusion for a higher India. As per the Right to Education (RTE) forum, only 8 percent colleges were made RTE compliant since the Act got here 6 years again.

The impact of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan remains bogged down by means of implementation woes even though there was a mild development inside the standard studying levels of sophistication 3, 5 & 8 as in keeping with 2016 survey performed through NCERT, Kapoor says.

“This claim, however, will go through a litmus check in 2021 when OECD will declare consequences of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test in which India is possible to take part after a gap of nine years. The authorities had decided to boycott PISA after a depressing overall performance in 2009,” he similarly adds.

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Higher Education

For better schooling, the authorities have initiated a number of steps to enhance exceptional and infrastructure of institutions. Mandatory accreditation, Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) and the declaration of Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) are a number of those laudable projects.

Though these measures have delivered a few relief in the age of exponential technological exchange, the satisfactory of graduates has no longer met contemporary industry needs.

“The current spate of worker retrenchment in technology companies makes it imperative for the whole better education gadget to put together college students for “jobs of the destiny”. This ought to imply growing consciousness on artificial intelligence, nuclear sciences, and the internet of things among others,” Kapoor opines.

Shortage of Teachers

The shortage of around a million instructors in authorities-run faculties is some other assignment the authorities has now not been to tackle in the beyond 3 years.

According to information tabled in the Lok Sabha via HRD minister Prakash Javadekar in December 2016, it changed into revealed that 18 percentage positions of instructors in authorities-run number one faculties and 15 percent in secondary faculties are vacant nationwide.

Vacant Post of Subject Teachers in Govt. Secondary Schools (Under State Government) in 2016-17: The reason for shortage as in step with the declaration was the “lack of regular recruitment schedule, non-sanctioning of posts, loss of effective teacher deployment, loss of concern expert trainer in positive areas, and small faculty sizes which have an effect on instructor distribution across colleges.”

Jharkhand has the maximum acute secondary faculty trainer scarcity at 70 percentage (38 percentage for simple college). The only Indian kingdom with no teaching vacancies either in primary or secondary faculties is Sikkim.

A Revolutionary Named Lalit Modi

April 18, 2008, is pink-letter day for all cricket aficionados. For it became on this day that the first game of the Indian Premier League became performed.

Since that day IPL has helped to break boundaries and unite human beings of their love for the game. After all, in which else could one get to peer a Kieron Pollard batting with Sachin Tendulkar, or see Dale Steyn and Vinay Kumar share the new ball.

And the credit score for this amazing revolution in the cricket world goes to one man: Lalit Kumar Modi.

IPL is Mr. Modi’s brainchild. But it changed into an idea in his mind lengthy earlier than the sector had even been brought to the concept. He first approached the BCCI in 1996 and pitched the concept of a restricted-over cricket league – a type of made-for-TV version of the sport. A layout that allowed cricket to compete towards football in phrases of length – a 3-hour long recreation.

But it became most effective after India gained the inaugural T20 World Cup tournament in 2007 that the Mr. Modi become able to get the IPL off the ground.

The first edition of IPL turned into precise in many approaches with Mr. Modi introducing NBA-fashion auctioning of gamers, encouraging u-19 home players, and diverse different progressive methods to the game.

The league is based totally on the same lines as the English Premier League (EPL) in football and the National Basketball League (NBA) in the USA.

Mr. Modi understood the Indian psyche and flawlessly married of the nation’s favored passions: cricket and Bollywood. It was now not a wonder that, in line with Television Audience Measurement (TAM), the common Television Rating Points (TRP) of the first 14 matches in season 1 turned into four.Ninety-seven.

The Bollywood razzmatazz, cheerleaders, and high-quality cricket ensured a loyal following the various humans.

It is this out-of-the-container questioning and power that has caused the IPL being a runaway success.

In its first yr itself, IPL introduced a profit of one thousand crore rupees and monetary analysts say IPL’s logo value nowadays stands at Rs 18,000 crore.

During the IPL 2010 ultimate right, Mr. Modi defined it because of the Indian People’s League and that what he truly accomplished through making cricket enticing and accessible, and consequently more rewarding.

In an interview, he mentioned his objective in starting IPL. He had said, “It is a totally critical try and boom the fan base for cricket in India. Furthermore, Indian cricket needed this boost at the domestic stage. With IPL, we aim to nurture and construct nearby talent. You will notice the improvement inside the first-rate of cricket being performed on the nearby level quickly.”

“I am very constructive that the DLF Indian Premier League will develop into a worldwide phenomenon, and assist take cricket to the subsequent stage. I haven’t any doubt in my thoughts that if we build on this platform over the following few years, we will have a layout that might well revolutionize the way cricket is performed, watched and accompanied globally.”

Mr. Modi’s dedication and ability have not long past disregarded. And in the 2008 August difficulty of the main sports activities magazine Sports Pro, he is ranked number 17 in the Power List of world figures linked with sports activities.

Time mag diagnosed his organizational competencies via ranking him at no. Sixteen in their list of Best Sports Executives in the World for 2008 in its July 2008 difficulty.

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