Anup Chandra Pandey appointed as Election Commissioner

The former UP-cadre bureaucrat, Anup Chandra Pandey, has been appointed as the Election Commissioner. He will be joining the poll panel as one of the two Election Commissioners. The position became vacant in April 2021, when Sunil Chandra was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner.

Resigned IAS official Anup Chandra Pandey on Wednesday assumed responsibility as Election Commissioner, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said in a proclamation.

Mr. Pandey, a 1984 group IAS official of the Uttar Pradesh unit, joins Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra and Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar to finish the three-part commission. He resigned as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh in 2019.

"Under his regulatory initiative as Chief Secretary, the State effectively coordinated the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj and Paravasi Bhartiya at Varnasi Diwas in 2019," the assertion read.

"Mr. Pandey has an unmistakable fascination for composing and has wrote a book named Governance in Ancient India, which investigates the advancement, nature, extension, capacities and all connected parts of antiquated Indian Civil Service from the Rig Veda period to 650 AD," the ECI said.

Mr. Pandey was designated by the President on Tuesday, filling the opening that was made when Mr. Chandra was raised from Election Commissioner to the post of CEC upon the consummation of then-CEC Sunil Arora's term in April.

Prices of Covishield, COVAXIN and Sputnik V

The Government has announced the fixed prices of COVAXIN, Covishield, and Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19. These prices will be charged by private hospitals all over India. COVAXIN and Covishield have been fixed at Rs. 1,410 and Rs. 780 per dose, while Sputnik has been fixed at Rs. 1,145 per dose.

Moreover, the Center likewise said that it has submitted a request to buy 25 crore portions of Covishield and 19 crore dosages of Covaxin. The Center has additionally put in a request to buy 30 crore dosages of Biological E's immunization, which will be accessible by September this year.

India presently utilizes the AstraZeneca antibody created by the Serum Institute of India, and another created at home by Bharat Biotech. Russia's Sputnik V will be economically dispatched in the country by the center of this current month.

World Bank estimates India’s GDP to grow at 8.3 percent

As per the World Bank report, India’s GDP has been expected to grow at 8.3% in FY 2021-22. The report predicts the economic growth in South Asian Countries to rebound stronger in 2021. The forecast for India’s GDP is expected to be true only if supported by various welfare plans.

In 2020, India's economy is assessed to have shrunk by 7.3 percent while in 2019, it enrolled a development pace of four percent, the World Bank said, adding that in 2023, India is required to develop at 6.5 percent.

In its report, the Bank said that the worldwide economy is set to extend by 5.6 percent in 2021 - its most grounded post-downturn pace in 80 years.

"For India, GDP in monetary year 2021/22 beginning from April 2021 is relied upon to grow 8.3 percent," it said.

Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan launched

The NITI Aayog and the Primal Foundation launched Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan. It will support the district administrations in providing home care support to COVID-19 with mild symptoms or who are asymptomatic. It has been launched in 112 aspirational districts.

NITI Aayog and Piramal Foundation has dispatched Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan in 112 Aspirational Districts to help locale organizations in giving home-care backing to Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have gentle indications.

The Abhiyaan is by and large piece of an uncommon drive, Aspirational Districts Collaborative, in which neighborhood pioneers, common social orders and volunteers work with region organizations to resolve arising issues across key center spaces of the Aspirational Districts Program.

Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan will be driven by region justices in organization with more than 1000 nearby NGOs, which will enroll and prepare more than 1 lakh volunteers to associate with patients through inbound/outbound calls. Piramal Foundation will work with region judges to help the preparation of NGOs and volunteers.

Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan is a critical drive that reacts to quick necessities and will give long haul backing to India's most unfortunate networks in the Aspirational Districts by tending to the enduring effect of Covid-19.

The mission is required to assume a vital part in area readiness for overseeing almost 70% of Covid cases at home, decreasing tension on the wellbeing framework, and stemming the spread of dread among individuals. The mission will likewise attempt limit working of residents for right use of Oxygen concentrators that have been provided to these locale.

NGOs will prepare nearby volunteers to give home-care backing to those influenced, in view of the rules of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.Volunteers will be prepared to help 20 influenced families each by instructing overseers to follow Covid conventions, give psycho-social help and opportune updates about patients to the organization

Jammu & Kashmir village first to achieve 100% vaccination

Jammu & Kashmir’s Weyan Village in Bandipora district has become the first village in India to achieve 100% vaccination of its adults. The total population in the village is 362 and people had to walk 18 km to get their COVID-19 vaccine shot.

A far off villa in Bandipora area of Jammu and Kashmir, has become country's first town to immunize all its grown-up populace against COVID-19. During such testing seasons of COVID pandemic, this comes as an uplifting news. The credit goes to the consistent and exhausting endeavors of medical care laborers, who figured out how to inoculate the whole grown-up populace of Weyan head protector, which is home to around 362 grown-up populace.

According to an authority from the Health Department, the town is found only 28 km away from Bandipora locale central command. Nonetheless, since there was no motorable street, a distance of 18 km must be covered by foot. He added that the undertaking of immunizing every one of the occupants was significantly more troublesome, as the town comprises of migrant families who go to higher goes after touching their animals.

While clarifying the challenges looked by the medical care laborers, Chief Medical Officer Bashir Ahmed referenced that the town had no acces to web, which further made it hard for the occupants to get arrangements for inoculation like the manner in which individuals in metropolitan regions do.

Accordingly, the immunization drive in this town was covered under 'J&K model', which is additionally a 10-guide system toward inoculate whole qualified populace at a sped up pace. Albeit the wellbeing laborers confronted starting hesistancy from the towns, Jammu and Kashmir has figured out how to accomplish 70% immunization in the 45+ age bunch, which is practically the twofold of public normal, the authority said.