The NPF recognizes the challenges law enforcement is currently facing in this rapidly changing environment. What is NEPA? You may have heard the phrases “national sword” or “green sword” in the news lately. Many of these have engaged with multi-disciplinarity/inter-disciplinarity in exciting and disturbing ways, bringing to the fore issues of diversity, difference and identity. It also envisages a three-dimensional integration of AYUSH systems encompassing cross referrals, co-location and integrative practices across systems of medicines.
National Health Policy 2017 policy proposes free drugs, free diagnostics and free emergency and essential health care services in all public hospitals in a bid to provide access and financial protection. What has made them vibrant institutions is the presence of faculty and students, elected, as well as on the basis of seniority and rotation. This is particularly crucial as the document visualises increased “benign” privatisation of education, attempting to distinguish this from commercialisation. NPI is an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States and around the world. It also boasts of having an effective grievance redressal mechanism.The policy proposes raising public health expenditure to 2.5 per cent of the GDP in a time-bound manner. What, one wonders, will be transacted in these institutions. We teach our children to “look before they leap.” NEPA requires our government to do the same. The silence of the document on this issue is troubling, to say the least.Equally disturbing is the passing reference to educational institutions in tribal areas, designated as ashramshalas (NEP 1.8) and envisaged as part of the Early Childhood Children Education programme. In 2012, CCHP was selected by the Health Resources and Services Administration to be the National Telehealth Policy Resource Center (NTRC-P) for the country.
Absent in the document, as far as I could see, is any mention of the term “caste”, apart from a fleeting reference to Scheduled Castes. It is a policy in China that has banned the importation of certain types of solid waste, as well as set strict contamination limits on recyclable materials. The last health policy was issued 15 years ago in 2002. Further centralisation is envisaged through the setting up of “the National Higher Education Regulatory Authority (NHERA)… to regulate in a ‘light but tight’ and facilitative manner, meaning that a few important matters — particularly financial probity, good governance, and full online and offline public disclosure of all finances, procedures, faculty/staff, courses, and educational outcomes — will be very effectively regulated, while leaving the rest to the judgment of the HEIs (NEP 20.4).” What, one wonders, remains in “the rest”.While we have been hearing a great deal about the benefits of being atma-nirbhar, the policy explicitly facilitates the presence of foreign universities within higher education. It replicates portions of the health section of the 2017 Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved What is National Health Policy 2017: Everything you need to know In a situation of growing privatisation and the near collapse of public institutions of higher education, how these policies will be implemented is a matter of concern.One of the buzz words in the document is multi-disciplinarity — an apparently attractive and flexible proposition, allowing learners to experiment with a variety of options. According to the Health Minister, the 2.5 per cent of GDP spend target for this sector would be met by 2025.Among key targets, the policy intends to increase life expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025 and reduce infant mortality rate to 28 by 2019. These formulate, discuss, and implement policies, courses and other institutional matters. It also aims to reduce under five mortality to 23 by the year 2025. * The moderation of comments is automated and not cleared manually by Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved National Education Policy needs close scrutiny for what it says, what it doesn’t