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Notify health policy for rare diseases by March 31, HC asks Centre; directs setting up of R&D body
It also asked the government to consider increasing the budget for rare diseases for the upcoming financial year 2021-22 and said the policy should deal with giving financial incentives for manufacturing drugs and contributing towards treatment of rare diseases.
Vehicle scrapping policy will be ‘win-win’ policy; to help reduce pollution: Nitin Gadkari
Making a statement regarding vehicle scrapping policy in the Lok Sabha, the Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Minister said the policy will also lead to an increase in the country’s automobile industry turnover to Rs 10 lakh crore from the current Rs 4.5 lakh crore.
Rajya Sabha passes bill to raise FDI in insurance to 74%
“Majority of directors in the board and key management persons to be resident Indians which means every law of the land will be applicable on them. And a specific percentage of the profits is to be retained as general reserves. It cannot be (taken away),” Sitharaman said
India received FDI worth Rs 26,000 crore in the insurance sector after 2015 when the foreign investment limit was raised to 49 per cent from 24 per cent.
Record beneficiaries verified in single day under Ayushman campaign
The Aapke Dwar Ayushman drive is successfully running in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir among other states, according to the statement.
A total of 1.2 crore Ayushman cards have been generated this year. It is expected that others states will soon join the drive.
Cabinet clears setting up of development finance institution to fund infra projects
“I expect the institution to raise up to 3 trillion rupees ($41.36 billion) in the next few years,” Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s finance minister told reporters, after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Jal Shakti Minsitry launches famework for water quality testing, monitoring
According to a 2018 assessment by the Central Ground Water Board, 52 percent of all the blocks in the country have inter alia any one of the geogenic contaminants like arsenic, chloride, fluoride, iron, nitrate, and salinity. Nearly 20 states in India have drinking water sources contaminated with arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, iron, salinity, or heavy metals.
Govt to take care of job loss, other facilities in strategic divestment: Thakur
Four sectors of atomic energy, space and defence; transport and telecommunications; power, petroleum, coal and other minerals; and banking, insurance and financial services would be strategic sectors. The rest will be non-strategic sectors, he said.
Govt developing dedicated portal for facilitation of domestic investors
“In order to further strengthen efforts to promote domestic investments, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is in the process of finalising a dedicated digital portal – Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra – for hand holding, information dissemination, and facilitation of domestic investors,” it said.
The special features of the portal will be daily updates on policies and new initiatives by central and state governments; information about approvals, licences, clearances and different schemes and incentives; information on manufacturing clusters and land availability; and applicable taxation system.
Under Ayushman Bharat, 3 crore women screened for Cancer
“In the past two years, under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana alone, three crore women from poor and rural families got themselves screened for cervical and breast cancer. It means the woman who would have never spoken about the diseases now have support from the government and she utilised the policy and under that she got herself screened, which means she is prepared for a medical challenge and she has prepared herself for solutions,” the union minister said.
Pfizer wants to make vaccine in India if faster clearance, export freedom assured -sources
Pfizer and Moderna, whose shots are more expensive than the AstraZeneca one being used in India’s immunisation campaign, are not comfortable with strict price and export restrictions, one of the sources said.