Effective counselling has resulted in women in 20 states being better informed of the side effects of various modes of modern contraception than before.
Johns Hopkins report lauds India for achieving global target of 90% coverage for 3 of 5 vaccines required to cut deaths of children under 5 years of age.
Ex-IAS officer C.K. Mishra says India's experience in rolling out Universal Immunisation Programme will help in designing strategy for distribution of Covid-19 vaccine once ready.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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