Context: President Ram Nath Kovind has unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Jubilee Park in the town of Parramatta, Sydney. The unveiling of the statue is part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Father of the Nation, which is being observed in different parts of the world.
Women Empowerment Resolution Campaign:
- Uttar Pradesh Government has launched Women Empowerment Resolution Campaign to develop leadership capacities in women and make them vocal for their rights. The purpose of this campaign is to ensure the empowerment of women through different programs in the state.
- Under it, the women employees of the state government will go to their house to know about schemes introduced by Center and the state government for women. Issues like education, self-employment, health, sanitation and nutrition will be included under this campaign.
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- Blue Revolution aims at doubling the income of farmers. In the last four & half years, Rs. 1915.33 crore has been released for its implementation.
(Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare)
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare at his inaugural address on Fifth World Fisheries Day, said that under the Blue Revolution scheme, 29,128 hectares has been developed for aquaculture and fishermen are being benefitted. And 7441 traditional boats have been modernized and converted into motorized boats.
The Blue Revolution mission aims at doubling the income of farmers and in the last four & half years, Rs. 1915.33 crore has been released for the implementation of Blue Revolution Schemes.
The government has approved Rs. 7522 crore Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF).
Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF):
- It creates employment opportunities to over 9.40 lakhs fishers/fishermen/ fisher folks and other entrepreneurs in fishing and allied activities.
- It attracts private investment in creation and management of fisheries infrastructure facilities.
- It helps in the creation of fisheries infrastructure facilities both in marine and inland fisheries sectors, which would boast fish production and help achieve target of Rs. 15 million tonne by 2020 under Blue revolution.
- It aims to achieve a sustainable growth of 8% to 9% in a move to augment fish production to the level of about 20 million tonnes by 2022-23.
- Cabinet approves Allied and Healthcare Council of India and corresponding State Allied and Healthcare Councils.
(Ministry of Health and Family Welfare)
The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of an Allied and Healthcare Council of India and corresponding State Allied and Healthcare Councils which will play the role of standard-setters and facilitators for professions of Allied and Healthcare.
Features of the Central and State Allied and Healthcare Councils:
- It includes 15 major professional categories including 53 professions in Allied and Healthcare streams.
- The Professional Advisory Bodies under Central and State Councils will examine issues in detail and provide recommendations relating to specific recognized categories.
The Allied and Healthcare Professionals (A&HPs) constitute an important element of the health human resource network. And it can reduce the cost of care and dramatically improve the accessibility to quality driven healthcare services.
Additional Benefits of the Allied and Healthcare Council:
- It will bring all existing allied and healthcare professionals on board within a few years from the date of establishment of the Council.
- It provides an opportunity to create qualified, highly skilled and competent manpower in healthcare and enable professionalism of the allied and healthcare workforce.
- It paves the way for high quality multi-disciplinary care in line with the vision of “Ayushman Bharat”.
Ayushman Bharat:
It is an attempt to move from sectoral and segmented approach of health service delivery to a comprehensive need-based health care service.
It aims to undertake path breaking interventions to holistically address health (covering prevention, promotion and ambulatory care), at primary, secondary and tertiary level.
Background:
Globally, Allied and Healthcare Professionals attend undergraduate degree programme to begin with and may attain up to PhD level qualification in their respective streams. However, in India, the institutions which provide such courses, lack standardization.
Many countries possess a statutory licensing or regulatory body to license and certify the qualifications and competence of such professionals, particularly those involved in direct patient care (like physiotherapist, nutritionist, etc.) or those whose occupation impact patient care directly (like lab technologists, dosimetrists, etc.).
Though such professionals have existed in Indian healthcare system for decades, a certain gap in the allied and healthcare space is there due to lack of a comprehensive regulatory framework and absence of standards for education and training of A&HPs
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