Manifesto for Public Health: why isn’t prevention better than cure? If Food subsidy had not been targeted at 65 per cent people but say only 40 -50 per cent people, we would have found enough resources for overcoming anemia among poor women for ever, or nutrition linked blindness among all vulnerable children. One does not…
Manifesto for revitalizing MSMEs For any developing country, most jobs are generated by micro, small and medium enterprises. And yet, the policy and institutional framework often is very weak. The reasons are not far to seek. Given heterogeneity of resources, domains, financial conditions and other interests, a unified leadership seldom emerges. Within a region, sometimes…
PRESIDENT OF INDIA LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE “IN-RESIDENCE” PROGRAMME FOR WRITERS, ARTISTS AND INNOVATION SCHOLARS ON BIRTH DAY Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi : 12-12-2013 The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee launched an ‘In-Residence’ Programme for writers, artists and innovation scholars yesterday (December 11, 2013) at Rashtrapati Bhavan on the occasion of his birthday. He also kicked…
Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down This is for the first time in the history of industrial economic development, green business ( blue economy) which looks at both biological and non biological feedback systems to be sustainable (cradle to cradle approach compatible with industrial ecology framework) seems to be…
A paradox of modern times is that as our awareness about new knowledge is increasing, our ability to develop a feel for the problems around us is decreasing. It seems we are getting immunised by an ever expanding exposure and awareness. Thus while we develop feel for only a very small part of our daily knowledge, we take even lesser initiatives for…