As beneficiaries become data points on the dashboard, Anganwadi workers in Tamil Nadu grapple with an overload of digital labor, being data collectors building a state’s health repository, and being subjects of surveillance.
In terms of child malnutrition, Gujarat is worse than Bihar and Odisha. The number of malnourished children in Tamil Nadu is almost half that of Gujarat.
UP govt announced Rs 50 lakh compensation in May 2021 for 72 anganwadi workers who died while on Covid duty. Only 12 families have received funds so far, says govt official.
District health department data shows there has been a decline in institutional deliveries. Officials cite pandemic, lockdown & vaccine drive as the reasons behind the drop.
Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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