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Govt’s digital life certificate campaign to benefit over 1.81 lakh pensioners
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Increase testing, Centre to 12 states, UTs reporting surge in cases as India records sharpest weekly rise since May last
Besides the ”strong advice” given by the Centre for a significant increase of testing in all districts in line with their positivity rate, the strategy to be adopted included effective isolation and contact tracing of that infected, Re-invigoration of Public and Private Healthcare resources, ensuring of COVID Appropriate Behaviour and targeted approach to vaccination in districts reporting large numbers.
There’s need to integrate various regulatory agencies with single-window system: Pharma secy
The medical devices industry, which is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 15 per cent, holds the highest growth potential among all the constituents of the healthcare sector such as pharma and hospital services, an official statement said quoting S Aparna, secretary of Department of Pharmaceuticals, under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.
RS MP asks govt to enact health guarantee law
“The government should enact a health guarantee law and guarantee the provision of health facilities to all the people through the government. The criteria for health facilities should be decided by the government,” Khan said.
Parliament approves Budget 2021, paves the way for LIC listing
Parliament cleared changes to the finance Bill 2021, doubling the minimum limit of employee contribution to provident fund to over Rs 5 lakh for the purpose of taxation with some riders, paving the way for the listing of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), exempting Indian-owned assets sold on digital platforms from equalization levy, and giving tax holidays for the proposed development finance institutions (DFIs).
Govt raises PF threshold limit to ₹ 5 Lakh for availing Tax-Free Interest
In her Budget presented to Parliament on February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had provided that interest on employee contributions to provident fund over ₹ 2.5 lakh per annum would be taxed from April 1, 2021.
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.