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Focussing on the Vaccines is the Need of the Hour: Some Suggestions

The country is amid an unprecedented pandemic that has taken a heavy toll on life which exceeds that in all the wars that India has been involved in in the last 100 years. The crisis has to be dealt with on a war footing. The infection is now sp....

May 17, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , COVID-19 , human resources , distribution , Central Asset Mapping , CoWin app , procurement , vaccine production

Modi Government: An Evaluation

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

As the nation reels under the impact of the monstrous second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic Prime Minister Modi has been the focus of much criticism, some justified and some unjustified, for the failure to avert it and to mitigate its adverse impact. ....

May 11, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , foreign policy , Make in India , Smart Cities , COVID-19 , Vaccines , Police Reforms , Bureaucratic apathy , socio-economic policies , security measures , Swacch Bharat

ताकि दुनिया में सबको मिले टीका

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

कोरोना महामारी के बढ़ते प्रकोप को देखते हुए अमेरिका ने भारत और दक्षिण अफ्रीका के उस प्रस्ताव का �....

May 07, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , अमेरिका , कोरोना महामारी

Recommendations: Oxygen Management for Current and Future Covid-19 Waves

(VIF Experts Group Report) Article

Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in conjunction with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conducted an interaction to determine the challenges in the provisioning of additional medical oxy....

May 07, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , COVID-19 , Task force , NDMA , Oxygen , audit , Data Bank , distribution , Grid

Covid: Missing facts, misdirected discourse

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Commentary

"One-fifth of Indian districts have not reported any Covid-19 cases for the last seven days. We seem to have flattened the Covid curve,” declared Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan two months back, on February 15. By then the daily infections t....

May 04, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , India , COVID-19 , Oxygen , Dr Harsh Vardhan

Action Plan for Handling the Covid-19 Threat-Second and Subsequent Waves

(VIF Experts Group Report) Article

Vivekananda International Foundation conducted a webinar on 01 May 2021 on the challenges arising from the second phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Leading specialists from various fields participated in the webinar and included Members of the National....

May 03, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , COVID-19 , Healthcare , nurses , coordination , Crisis Management Teams , EOCs , human resources , national mobilization , medical manpower , Oxygen supply , student doctors

The Oxygen Crisis in Second Wave Covid-19 Pandemic in India and “We the People”

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak Article

The Silver Lining

Dr. Rajendra Bharud an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer of 2013 batch presently Collector Nandurbar in the tribal area of Maharashtra started setting up a liquid oxygen plant way back in September 2020 when t....

May 03, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Wuhan virus , O2 crisis , Nandurbar case , handling the second Covid-19 wave in India , medical oxygen , Rajendra Bharud

Overcoming the Pandemic: Some Suggestions

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The country’s public health infrastructure is at a breaking point. Daily new cases have crossed the 400,000 mark and may increase manyfold in the coming days. The country has only approx. 75,000 ICUs whereas nearly every day, 75,000 ICU beds are ne....

May 02, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Covid , Healthcare , logistics , fresh doctors , human dimension , ICU beds , NGOs , nurses , Oxygen

Academic Freedom: Some Unpleasant Considerations

Dr Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Editor, VIF History Volumes Commentary

Among the left-liberal intellectuals, this has been a frequently used term in India for quite some time. The people, who use it, find it generally convenient not to explain its connotation. This way they enjoy the advantage of suggesting that a dread....

April 20, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , archaeology , Academic Freedom , Ayodhya judgment , left liberals

Vimarsha on Defining Democracy by Dr. A Surya Prakash

In the recent past, several reports have come out questioning the functioning of the Indian democracy. Responding to these reports, the Indian Foreign Ministry said that India had “robust institutions and well established democratic practices”....

March 31, 2021 Vimarsh , Governance and Political Studies , Congress , BJP , governance , India democracy , Political Party