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Raj Malhotra’s IAS Study Group Key findings show the rise of India as an emerging innovation center in Asia, high innovation performance in Sub-Saharan Africa relative to development and an opportunity to improve innovation capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each year, the GII surveys some 130 economies using dozens of metrics, from patent filings to education spending providing decision makers a high-level look at the innovative activity that increasingly drives economic and social growth. In a new feature for the GII, a special section looks at “invention hotspots” Video around the globe that show the highest density of inventors listed in international patent applications. Now in its tenth edition, the GII 2017 notes a continued gap in innovative capacity between developed and developing nations and lackluster growth rates for research and development (R&D) activities, both at the government and corporate levels. World Bank says India will grow 7.2% in FY18, GST will deliver substantial gains The World Bank said the government’s November decision to withdraw high-value currency notes may have disproportionately high impact on the poor and vulnerable while its decision to implement the goods and services tax (GST) will be equitable without any negative impact on the poor. “Demonetization affected poor and vulnerable households, in all likelihood having an impact on construction and informal retail, where many poor and vulnerable individuals work. While limited data is available, there has been an increase in demand for guaranteed employment, and indicators of rural consumption contracted sharply in November. Although the informal economy may account for only 40% of GDP, it employs 90% of India’s workers, and the disproportionate impact of demonetisation on India’s informal sector suggests that it would have affected those workers the most. The poor and vulnerable are more likely to work in informal sectors and less able to move to non-cash payments,” the World Bank said. However, it said if the government takes complementary measures, in the long-term, demonetization has the potential to accelerate formalization of the economy, increase tax collection and allow greater digital financial inclusion. The Bank has projected economic activity to accelerate to 7.2% in 2017-18 against the government’s estimate of 7.1%. The Central Statistics Office will release the revised GDP estimate for 2017-18 on Wednesday, including the new industrial production and wholesale price inflation series data. 18 | P a g e # 1 1 1 0 , A d j a c e n t Y M C A , S e c t o r 1 1 - C , C h a n d i g a r h P h : 9 8 1 4 7 - 1 1 6 6 1
Raj Malhotra’s IAS Study Group Social Issues Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) under Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) Introduced Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) was introduced recently in Himachal Pradesh and parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the first phase. PCV protects children against severe forms of pneumococcal diseases, such as pneumonia and meningitis. Pneumonia kills more children under five years of age in India than any other infectious disease. Pneumococcal disease is the leading cause of vaccine preventable deaths in children under five years of age globally and in India. Darwaza Band for open defecation The centre launched an aggressive new campaign titled 'Darwaza Band' to promote toilet use and freedom from open defecation across the country's villages. The campaign produced by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation under Swachh Bharat Mission was launched in the presence of Amitabh Bachchan, Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Parameswaran Iyer. The Union Minister and the State Chief Minister also reviewed the working of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) programme in Maharashtra ahead of the event. Champion functionaries from the State of Maharashtra were awarded during the event. An exhibition displaying various toilet technologies was also put up. The 'Darwaza Band' campaign has been supported by the World Bank and is being rolled out countrywide immediately after the launch. It is designed to encourage behaviour change in men who have toilets but are not using them. A part of the campaign also features actor, Ms Anushka Sharma, who will be seen encouraging women to stand up for this issue in their villages and assume a leadership role. Behaviour change has been the focus of Swachh Bharat Mission, which is being pursued through a countrywide comprehensive IEC(Information- Education-Communication) programme. Communication campaigns have been taken up both, at the central and State levels, for promoting sustained use of toilets and for sustaining the Open Defecation Free status achieved. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: Health Secretary inaugurates ‘Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh’, a National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre C K Mishra, Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) inaugurated the ‘Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh’, a National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre at the Lady Hardinge Medical College . Shri C K Mishra congratulated the LHMC, Delhi for this initiative and said that this would be the largest human milk bank and lactation counselling centre available under the public sector in North India. The Health Secretary further added that it is envisaged that with this donor human milk bank, all newborns in and around Delhi will have access to life saving human milk regardless of the circumstances of their birth. Mr Nils Ragnar Kamsvag, Ambassador of Norway to India, was also present at the occasion. “Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh” is established in collaboration with the Norwegian government, Oslo University and Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI). Shri Mishra said that even when we know the potential of mother’s milk for a child, breastfeeding rates are low in India. He informed the participants that the early initiation of breastfeeding is only 40%, even when the 19 | P a g e # 1 1 1 0 , A d j a c e n t Y M C A , S e c t o r 1 1 - C , C h a n d i g a r h P h : 9 8 1 4 7 - 1 1 6 6 1
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