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Vision loss and impairment affects more than how people see; it has implications for inequities in employment, healthcare access, and income. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted India’s progress in the provision of eye care over the past two years.
This article discusses rationale and motivation with which eye health of the children must be prioritized. It then analyzes the issues and challenges in ensuring eye care to the children in India and how in the process, the nation’s commitment to the attainment of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals gets impacted. It also provides a glimpse of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the eye health of the children.
Vision is not just critical to an individual’s growth and development but has direct implications for national and global development. It holds the potential to boost the global economy in a fair and equitable manner. It enables everyone to live their lives to the fullest, releasing their potential to learn, to work, and to lead fulfilled and productive lives.
Khushi Agrawal Background The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, was introduced in Lok Sabha on July 19, 2019, by the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Mr Thaawarchand Gehlot. This bill recognises the identity of transgender persons as the…
The recent Indian Hindi TV series Panchayat have brought forth issues concerning our villages, and youth aspirations for a career in defence amidst Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav India@75, highlighting the dire need for improvements; this article aims to bring about the correlation of the impact popular culture exerts upon contemporary schemes and policies.
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) are one of the main forces behind India's economy's growth story. The MSME sector, which includes the service industry, manufacturing, packaging, infrastructure, food processing, IT, and chemicals, has emerged in the past few decades as the Indian economy's most dynamic source of growth.
It appeared from media reports and commentaries as if India was the flavour at the 77th UNGA where India was ably represented by her Foreign Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar. This is not a eulogy for the EAM but he is known to call a spade a spade which you could only do when you are convincing and represent a power that is taken seriously otherwise it becomes a rant of the disadvantaged.