-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in Achieving the target won’t drastically reduce emissions nor will India achieve energy security because of it. For India to meet its target of 20% ethanol blended in petrol by the year 2025 (commonly known as the E20 target), it will have to bring in more land under cultivation of feedstock – agricultural products that can be converted into ethanol – land that can be better utilised for the generation of...
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Health Stack is harder to roll out than Aadhaar: RS Sharma -Shouvik Das
-Livemint.com Aadhaar has only two parties—the government and citizens, but ABDM involves multiple entities NEW DELHI: Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), which seeks to build a Technology backbone for digital health infrastructure in India, is “much more difficult" to build than Aadhaar, according to Ram Sewak Sharma, chief executive of the National Health Authority (NHA). Speaking at the Mint AI Summit 2022 held in New Delhi on 29 April, Sharma explained that while...
More »Dalberg study indicates that ONORC can be improved further
A recently released study, which has been done by Dalberg in collaboration with Kantar, and with support from the Omidyar Network India, brings to light both the supply and demand-side perspectives on the 'One Nation One Ration Card' (ONORC) scheme. Titled 'Fulfilling the promise of One Nation One Ration Card: A frontline perspective from 5 Indian states', the survey for the study was conducted in five states i.e., Andhra Pradesh,...
More »Is the govt. doing enough for the Jan Aushadhi scheme?
On Janaushadhi Diwas this year (i.e., March 7th, 2022), Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi stated that the poor and the middle-class benefited from the 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' that were set up to provide generic drugs at affordable prices. He said that the poor and the middle class saved around Rs.13,000 crore through these stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the 'Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India'...
More »Jaime Saavedra, World Bank’s Global Director for Education, interviewed by Jagriti Chandra (The Hindu)
-The Hindu Post-COVID learning for children should be accelerated, says World Bank’s Global Director for Education Jaime Saavedra. World Bank’s Global Director for Education Jaime Saavedra was in India last week to meet Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and governments of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh to discuss concerns over learning losses for children due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for concerted efforts to bridge these gaps. In a sit-down interview...
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