Socially disruptive
Coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 stymied Government’s country-wide implementation of National Popular Register(NPR)-National Register of Citizens (NRC), starting April 1, 2020. However, the fear of NRC with Citizenship (Amendment) Act-2019 (CAA) on its back, remains. These fears are now overshadowed by deaths and suffering in the on-going brutal Covid second wave and an impending third wave.
Assam’s Supreme Court-monitored NPR-NRC exercise took 5-years and cost ₹1,220 crores. It found 1.9-million (6%) of 32.9-million people who applied for citizenship, as “illegal migrants”. They were unable to prove their citizenship for want of documents acceptable to officials.
Assam’s NRC completed on 31.08.2019, found that over 60% of illegal migrants were Hindus. Significantly, 100 days later government introduced CAA-2019 as a Bill, passing it into law on 12.12.2019. Country-wide protests against CAA-2019 and government’s ham-fisted response gained national attentio
Digital technology: The next frontier in healthcare delivery in post-Covid India May 17, 2021, 10:12 PM IST
Pompy is the India Director of MSD for Mothers.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, India and several developing countries around the world were already beginning to embrace digital innovations to combat challenges of socio-economic inequality. The pandemic accelerated the humanizing of digital technology – it brought people together at a time when physical distancing was legally mandated in many parts of the world. No longer just a tool, technology became an enabler and vehicle of human connection for family, friends, and colleagues who were, overnight, asked to stay at home for an indefinite amount of time.
McDougal, Shakya, Dehingia, Bhan, Raj); United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF (
Lapsansky, Conrad); International Institute for Population Sciences (
Singh); Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego (
McDougal) The existence of spatial dependence and/or spatial heterogeneity can be important markers for patterns of social norms dispersion and variation across geographic communities, providing information that can inform social norms change intervention strategies. Research from around the world has revealed a complex nexus of factors that contribute to child marriage, including normative values regarding the status, value, and rights of women and girls. To that end, development and public health interventions to address child marriage have increasingly focused on the role of social norms, emphasising community engagement as well as social and behaviour change (SBC) strategies to shift these norms at the community level. In India, child marriage is encourage
On key health indicators, West Bengal outperforms many states that offer PM’s insurance scheme
Data shows the reality is more complicated than the Centre’s claims on the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
In the
Economic Survey 2020-’21, released ahead of the Union Budget, the central government singled out poll-bound West Bengal for comparison on various health indicators against three adjacent states, Bihar, Assam and Sikkim, which, unlike West Bengal, have implemented its health insurance scheme, the
The PMJAY scheme aims to provide Rs 5 lakh health insurance coverage per year to nearly 11 crore economically vulnerable families or 50 crore people. PMJAY is jointly implemented by the central and state governments in