India s gift of 1.5 million vaccine doses to reach Myanmar on Friday
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Myanmar is an important land and maritime neighbour of India with which India shares close historical, civilisational, cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic ties. Myanmar is a vital component of India’s “Neighbourhood First” and “Act East” policies.
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India has continued with assistance through ITEC programmes during the lock-down.
New Delhi: A consignment containing 1.5 million doses of COVISHEILD vaccines will reach Yangon on Friday. Myanmar is one of the first countries to receive India’s gift of the “Make in India” COVIDSHIELD vaccines, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu
The world observes Anti-corruption Day on December 9, but this spring of gutter continues to flow perennially. During a training programme at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, a woman IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh said ministers and senior officers generally, when they visited districts or sub-divisions, never spent a penny from their pockets and rather enjoyed the hospitality of the local administration, which is invariably based on the resources collected by officials by resorting to corrupt ways. All officers agreed that the same conditions prevailed in other states, too. The revenue department was considered as the major victim of this greed.
RS Dalal
I joined Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, as a Deputy Director in 1986 and was also given the charge of its riding club. Once we had settled down, I, rigged in my full riding gear, started going down to the small dainty riding ground located in the Happy Valley, hedged in by Himalayan mountains. The riding staff was impressed by my proficiency and I instantly gained their confidence. ‘Sir, horse riding that once was a compulsory activity is now optional and only a handful of trainees take interest in it’ was their constant grouse.
The syces would narrate exciting experiences of good old times of riding out on mountain trails, especially the one about riding up to the Everest bungalow. The bungalow was built in 1832 by George Everest, the then Surveyor General of India, and after whom the highest mountain peak of the world is named.
Andhra Pradesh faces debt burden of Rs 3.73 lakh crore: CAG
In the first eight months of the current financial year, the state government incurred a revenue expenditure of Rs 70,082.90 crore, almost all of which went towards the numerous freebie schemes of the ruling YSR Congress. PTI January 03, 2021 / 07:05 PM IST
The Andhra Pradesh government s gross debt burden has increased to Rs 3,73,140 crore by the end of November 2020. CAG s latest accounts revealed that from April to November 2020 alone Rs 73,811.85 crore was borrowed from different sources as against the annual target of Rs 48,295.59 crore for the whole year.
In the month of November alone, the government borrowed Rs 13,001 crore to foot the freebies bill. Against the targeted Rs 18,434.15 crore for the entire financial year, the revenue deficit shot up to Rs 57,925.47 crore by the end of November itself.
‘We Kant Back Down Now’ - A Case of Too Much Democracy! Too much, or too little?
So now we finally know why the Modi government has messed up the Farm Bills issue big time: it has advisors like Mr. Kant who no doubt firmly believe that a few more jackboots on peasant throats would have made them gladly swallow the legislation without any demur. And, for all we know, he s the one who is also advising our resident sage: We kant back down now!
Amitav Kant is one of the most powerful and influential policy makers in the present dispensation and his words cannot be wished away like those of Mr. Giriraj Singh. He has come a long way from his Kerala Tourism days, but posterity will always wonder what happened to him between the brilliant God s own country and the alarming India has too much democracy. He may just be his master s voice sending up a trial balloon or he may be making a down payment to insure a second extension of service.