Ground Reality

     Neeraj Bajpai   For 2019 General elections, leaders of political parties have started huddling in war rooms, and are deeply engaged in back channels dialogues to stitch alliances for a sure shot clincher at the hustings .      Strange bedfellows’ syndrome is an order of the day. Stakeholders are making desperate bids to showcase the credible and winning grouping ahead of polls, due within the next three or four months, to elect 17 th  Lok Sabha. With the first phase of the winter session coming to end this week, parleys among parties have gained momentum, the formal seal on these tie-ups might be stamped only after the declaration of elections because that paves the way of imposition of a code of conduct. Old saying --when the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others windmills-is virtually palpable. And many turncoats can be seen making windmills by crossing sides and some are making walls so that allies don’t run a...

Carving out a niche in annals of the global education architecture, New York University School of Medicine has said that it will pay the tuition of all its students regardless of merit or financial need, becoming the first major American medical school to do so.   NYU made the announcement at its annual White Coat Ceremony, where new students are presented with white lab coats to mark the start of their medical education.. “Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our trustees, alumni, and friends, our hope—and expectation—is that by making medical school accessible to a broader range of applicants, we will be a catalyst for transforming medical education nationwide,” said Kenneth G. Langone, chair of NYU Langone Health’s board of trustees But if NYU can do that why not others? The step has ignited imaginations across the globe, and   some has started flagging the issue.   In India too, the burden of tuition fees in professional courses is becoming unbea...

Charting course for the third industrial revolution,President Associationof Indian Universities (AIU ) Prof PB Sharma has called for a serious thinking on e ngineering and technology of tomorrow, observing it will veer around co nvergence of communication and renewable energy technologies. Prof Sharma, an eminent educationist and Founder VC of Delhi Technological University says In such an industrial revolution, there is a strong possibility of realizing the dream of mass-entrepreneurship, sustainable habitat and establishing the vital harmony with nature while at the same time keeping the momentum of growth and development to manifest the promise of a happy and healthy life to the billions of people around the world. This requires our commitment to pursue the cause of Frugal Engineering to gainfully utilize the enormous power of innovation for the benefit of millions of our people in the world. He recalls on January1, 2016, the  17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG...

A two day international meet on innovations in the medical care arena was held in the National capital this week, opening new vistas in diagnostic discipline, backbone of holistic and quick treatment.  Experts and companies held brainstorming sessions discussing threadbare needs of patients in India where rural swathes still pine for healthcare at an affordable cost. Experts say although Rural India accounts for about 70 per cent of the population, it has less than one third of the country’s hospitals, doctors, beds etc.           The meet -“InnoHEALTH 2017” was organized on September 18 and 19 2017. It is the annual feature and it was the second in the series.Third meet will be held in October next here.  “With the immense response this year we are pleased to announce the dates for InnoHEALTH 2018, 5 th  – 6 th  October 2018, hoping to come back next year keeping the shared goals in healthcare with on...