While India has outperformed itself over the last year on the national index on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the country’s performance globally leaves much to be desired.
Social Sector
While the Covid-19 pandemic will be always remembered as probably the biggest catastrophe in our living memory, at the same time the role of civil society, including the Indian diaspora, will keep our hope alive in the power of people to rise to cope with such challenges.
India and Israel have inked a new three-year work programme agreement (2021-2023) for enhancing cooperation in agriculture, including focusing on modern agriculture infrastructure, capacity building and market linkages,
No country in the world can defeat Covid-19 by ramping up its healthcare facilities alone. India is no exception. Preventive measures like vaccination and adherence to Covid-appropriate behaviour have to accompany treatment.
While enduring images of the Covid-19 era are of doctors staking their lives to treat patients, some who lost their kith and kin carry privately nightmarish memories of doctors providing just minimal treatment and waiting till the fateful day.
If you really intend to help people hit by Covid-19, you can do more than forward random forwards to them. You can follow Covid-Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) and help them personally and digitally by sharing personally verified information.
It seems the Coronavirus will keep on punishing us till we learn our lessons to fight it right. The jury is still out on the whats, the whys and the hows of the current wave of the Covid-19, but there is a unanimity that the Coronavirus is going to terrorise us for a long time.
If there is a less privileged section of the society that needs the least support to convert the Covid-19 pandemic challenge into an opportunity, it is that of craftspersons or artisans.
The Covid-19 vaccination drive needs to be accompanied with promotion of Covid-appropriate behaviour, which can be made a default lifestyle option with a dose of innovative small technology solutions developed by ingenious entrepreneurs, to fight better against the pandemic going forward
Mumbai is on top of the list of philanthropic cities of India, and it is followed by New Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, London, Kolkata and Dubai.