One Year into Pandemic already?

Pandemic + Outcome Budget

This week we talk about Public Health, Democracy and Outcome Budget.

Happy reading and have a great weekend!

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One Year Into Pandemic

In the past one year, healthcare, Public Health and healthcare workers have been some of the commonly used terms, but what is Public Health and have our policy systems created structures to provide equal access and provisions for all?

Source: NDTV

The main aim of public health is to prevent diseases and their outbreak, and Covid-19 is the greatest public health challenge of our times. As we mark one year to the declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic, let's reflect on its impact:-

Public Health: More than 118 million people fell ill with the coronavirus, and 11.3 million were affected in India. The pandemic posed severe challenges on the health system, health workers both at the rural and urban level.

Jobs: The impact on jobs has been uneven across sectors. With close to 10.9 million jobs were lost in total across India, the most severely affected were aviation, hospitality and travel. However, healthcare and EdTech saw a spike in job openings.

Government Support: The government of India announced a relief package in phases- with the announcement of a $22 million relief package, followed by a stimulus package of 2.65 lakh crore rupees. 

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Election update 

Opinion Polls are Here- As per the Times Now C-Voter survey, three of the poll-bound states might be retained by the current state government, but the change of wind is predicted in Tamil Nadu. 

Let’s wait and see how true are these opinion polls and what impact would it have on the politics of the coming times!

Source: Hindustan Times

Poll-bound states and Coronavirus: After Trinamool Congress complained to the Election Commission, the coronavirus vaccine certificate would not have the Prime Minister’s picture in poll-bound states of Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry. 

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100 days of farmer protest

On March 6, 2021, Farmer Protests completed 100 days, which was marked by ‘chakka jam’ and other activities, Delhi border was abuzz and yet the solution to the conflict remains vague. 

 Here are a couple of pictures from the day for you-

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Outcome budget by Delhi government

Outcome Budget is an approach adopted by the Delhi Government led by Aam Aadmi Party. In the outcome budget of 2021-22, 2113 indicators were covering 595 schemes of different departments. The outcome budget has been designed in a way that it shows the infrastructures, schemes and programs and the benefits which people got from it from the perspective of the citizens.

Source: Times of India

This year the top-performing departments are Health (80% ), Environment ( 79% ), Power ( 75% ) and PWD(73%) (Source: Times of India). 

This approach has added to the credibility, accountability and transparency of the current Delhi Government. 

What do you think about this?

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