Tag: Parliament

The current issue discusses both approved and pending bills related to bioscience sector in the Parliament. It features the power-packed interviews with Krishna Mohan Puvvada, Vice President, Novozymes-South Asia; Dr Radha Rangarajan, Director, Central Drug Research Institute; Vikram Thaploo, CEO-Telehealth, Apollo Hospitals; and Vaibhav Tewari, Co-founder & CEO, Portea Medical.

Support has been provided for the strengthening of a total of 5430 facilities (5246- UPHCs and 184 UCHCs) in urban areas, construction of 807 new UPHCs, and 86 new UCHCs.................

Indian parliament on 20th September passed The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020. Prime Minister has assured that procurement at MSP will continue....................

The group called “Parliamentarians for Malaria Elimination” includes eleven (11) Members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to different states, including many with a high malaria burden...............

In what is being termed as the biggest conglomeration of scientists, students, researchers and entrepreneurs, IISF 2019 is expected to have more than 12,000 participants from India and abroad who will be participating in more than two dozen scientific and frugal innovation related events.....................

The two day event focused on advocacy for tuberculosis featured cricket match involving India's top ministers, political leaders, parliamentarians, MLAs and Bollywood actors...............

The passage of the DNA bill in the lower house of the Parliament has to now matched by green signal from upper house too for it to become a law to ensure the application of DNA-based forensic technologies to support and strengthen the justice delivery system of the country...………..

As per the union government, an increase in economic growth makes available increased resources for funding the health sector. During the year 2017-18, Rs 50,592.63 Crore was allocated for healthcare expenditure in India which is higher than the previous fiscal years

On the whole, govt says that the policy seeks to strike a balance between the interest of patients of Rare Diseases and health system sustainability.........

As per the Minister of State for Science and Technology, Mr Y S Chowdary, the ease of funding, speed of delivery, attractive fellowships etc. are some of the characteristics of the young scientist research programmes........