-Financial Express The National Digital Health Mission stands on weak footing. The Health Data Management Policy’s vague provisions don’t uphold its lofty guiding principles The CoWin portal came under criticism due to the absence of a privacy policy. In February 2021, the minister of state for health informed the Lok Sabha that CoWin follows the privacy policy of the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), which is the Health Data Management Policy (the...
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In the Covid-19 times, states must do more to safeguard disadvantaged children’s right to education -Abhinav Mehrotra
-Scroll.in Even as the RTE Act has ensured 25% reservation for economically backward students, the lack of internet access has resulted in dropouts. Over the past one-and-a-half year, the prolonged closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic has reversed the educational gains made in the last decade. This is especially relevant to socially and educationally disadvantaged children who gained access to education in private schools through the quota for them under...
More »Shouldn't Misuse Anti-Terror Law To Quell Dissent: Supreme Court Judge -A Vaidyanathan
-NDTV.com "Deprivation of liberty for even a single day is one too many. We must always be mindful of the deeper systemic issues of our decisions," Justice DY Chandrachud said. New Delhi: Anti-terror law should not be "misused for quelling dissent" Supreme Court Judge Justice Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud said on Monday as he was addressing an event on the legal ties between India and the United States. "Criminal law, including anti-terror legislation,...
More »Tapping on the potential of the youth -Poonam Muttreja and Dipa Nag Choudhury
-The Hindu It is critical that we safeguard young people’s well-being because India’s welfare hinges on them World Population Day is marked on July 11 every year to focus attention on the importance of population-related issues. It was first observed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1989 and aims to raise the discourse on sustainable ways to safeguard each life that adds up to a population. As flagged by a UNDP...
More »Severely malnourished under-5 children consumed by hunger in the pandemic - Mohit Shukla
-GaonConnection.com Almost 43% of under the age of six kids in the country, suffering from severe acute malnutrition, are in Uttar Pradesh. COVID pandemic, loss of livelihoods, overburdened healthcare system and disrupted anganwadi services have made matters worse in the state. A Gaon Connection report. Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh: Kanti Devi gave birth to her second son Anmol three months ago. Her older son Adit is one-and-a-half years old. Her eyes sick with...
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