Initiatives to lower Child Mortality Rates
There are three types of reported mortality rates Infant Mortality Rate: Number of deaths under 1 year per 1000 live births. Neonatal Mortality Rate: Number of deaths under 4 weeks per 1000 live births....
Author: Nitish Kumar
New Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016
Biomedical waste comprises human and animal anatomical waste, treatment apparatus like needles, syringes and other materials used in health care facilities in the process of treatment and research. This waste is generated during diagnosis,...
Cabinet Mission (in context of Indian Independence)
On 19 Feb, 1946, Clement Attlee announced the proposed visit of 3 members of British cabinet, and thus called Cabinet Mission. The biggest concern in mind of British was that of imperial defence, and...
Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986
This act is an over encompassing act which provides the central government with vast powers to Set new national standards for the quality of environment (ambient standards) as well as standards of controlling effluents...
Medical Council of India and its Improvements
The Medical Council of India (MCI) was established in 1934 under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1933, as an elected body for Maintaining the medical register and providing ethical oversight An amendment in 1956...
Forests and their types
In India, all lands which are more than 1 hectare in area and with a canopy density of more than 10% irrespective of ownership and legal status is called Forest Cover. Though there has...
Non-Performing Assets: What? Why? Solutions Ahead!
What is NPA? An asset becomes NPA, when it ceases to generate income for the lending bank. According to a July 2014 RBI circular, all advances where interest and/or instalment of principal remains due...
Panchayati Raj System
I quote few excerpts from the NCERT book, “Social Change and Development in India”, which says “Modern Society, with its size and complexity, offers few opportunities for direct democracy. Today, the most common...
Preamble to the Constitution of India
The discussion on Preamble to Constitution of India is again in headlines. The debate on a set of words as sacred as this, reflects an ongoing churning of views and ideas, which is itself...
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
NPT is in lexicon of Indians at least, as we take (do not take) pride in not signing the world’s most significant arms limitation and disarmament agreement. NPT is an international treaty whose objective...
