-Scroll.in The large proportion of Tablighi positives is simply due to the large number of people who were tested from the event, even as overall testing remains low. Like the rest of the world, India is battling the coronavirus pandemic. However, here the public conversation over the past week has focussed inordinately on only one facet of the disease: its link with the Tablighi Jamat, a Muslim religious group. A Tablighi Jamat event,...
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Why ICMR will not expand coronavirus tests: Not rational given India size -Karishma Mehrotra & Harikishan Sharma
-The Indian Express ICMR on coronavirus testing: India has conducted roughly 6,000 tests so far, lower than the US (8,000), Japan (9,600), France (12,000), the UK (13,000), and Italy (23,000). South Korea has conducted as many as 2 lakh, which experts see as the reason for their significantly declining numbers. As each country debates own testing strategy to combat Covid-19, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has decided to monitor community...
More »Centre measuring how we spend our time -Isha Jain
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: A pan-India survey is under way since January 2019, the first of its kind in India, to measure an individual’s use of his/ her time, evident in the very term Time User Survey. Conducted by the National Sample Survey Office, it is being carried out in four legs from January to December. Talking about the survey, chief statistician Pravin Srivastava on Saturday, while inaugurating a seminar on...
More »FSSAI to launch Sampling and testing scheme for licensed dairy units -Meenakshi Verma Ambwani
-The Hindu Business Line To establish a self-monitoring mechanism for dairy establishments. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Friday said it plans to launch a scheme for Sampling, testing and inspection of milk, in a bid to set up a self- monitoring mechanism for licensed dairy establishments. The food safety authority said this move is expected to strengthen internal controls at the licensed dairy processing establishments. Under this scheme, milk...
More »The many hues of inequality in India -T Haque & D Narasimha Reddy
-The Hindu Business Line There has been a spike in income inequality in the post reforms period with wealth concentrated at the top deciles India has somehow nurtured a widely shared impression that it has a well established statistical system with reliable databases compiled through effective methods of data collection through its network of central agencies and periodic nation-wide surveys. However, India is one of the very few countries which does not...
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