Justice Abhilasha Kumari, Judge of the High Court of Gujarat was recently sworn in as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Manipur. She is the first woman Chief Justice of the High Court of Manipur.
Dun & Bradstreet releases ‘Port Logistics: Issues & Challenges in India’ report
The study looks into various roadblocks and suggests policy recommendations to resolve the challenges across ports in India. It was handed over to Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce & Industry today. To achieve a target of 5% share in world exports, India’s exports need to grow at an average rate of over 26% for the next five years. This would require increasing its product competitiveness. Enhancing product competitiveness in the global market needs infrastructure for trade to improve, and ports are a critical part of trade infrastructure. The study encapsulates key issues and challenges and also proposes 60 policy measuresto strengthen the ports sector, which represents the bulk of India’s merchandise trade .The study introduces a ‘Port Performance Index’ as an attempt to benchmark performance of various ports by combining qualitative perception of stakeholders with quantitative outcome based data. Covering 13 ports which handle around 67% of India’s maritime trade, and engaging with 700 respondents pan India, comprising government officials, trade associations, exporter/importers, cargo handling agents and freight forwarders. Feedback was collected from these stakeholders on both qualitative and quantitative aspects of business transactions at ports.The scope of this study is limited only to container and bulk cargo handled at these ports and does not cover liquid cargo.
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States with a record of investment in literacy, nutrition and primary health care have achieved high scores in NITI Aayog’s first Health Index.
The Index, with all its limitations given uneven data availability, hopes to make a difference by encouraging a competitive approach for potentially better outcomes.
Responsibilities of different tiers of government
Health-care delivery is the responsibility of States; the Centre provides financial and policy support.
Being able to meet the Sustainable Development Goals over the coming decade depends crucially on the States’ performance.
Both the Centre and the States have the responsibility to scale up their investment on health as a percentage of their budgets.
Lack of sufficient data
The Index uses metrics such as institutional deliveries, systematic reporting of tuberculosis, access to drugs for people with HIV/AIDS, immunization levels, and out-of-pocket expenditure.
Data on other key aspects such as non-communicable diseases, mental health, governance systems and financial risk protection lack the integrity to form part of a good composite index.
Way forward
National Health Protection Scheme announced in the Union Budget may be able to address some of the financial risk associated with ill-health.
But, it will take systematic improvements to preventive and primary care to achieve higher scores in the Index.
As the experience from countries in the West and now even other developing economies shows, socialization of medicine with a reliance on taxation to fund basic programmes is the bedrock of a good health system.
The NITI Aayog has launched the Healthy States Progressive Report in an effort to better assess health outcomes across India.
The report is the first step to establish an annual systematic tool to measure and understand the complexity of nation’s performance in health.
About the report
Health Index has been evolved through comprehensive study and inputs from World BankIndia and the Ministry of Health.
The report ranked states and Union territories on their year-on-year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as overall performance with respect to each other.
The Health Index is a weighted composite index, which for the larger states is based on indicators in three domains — health outcomes (70%), governance and information (12%) and key inputs and processes (18%).
Each domain is assigned a weight based on its importance.
Performance on indicators such as Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR), Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR), full immunization coverage, institutional deliveries, and People Living with HIV (PLHIV) on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) were taken into account.
Common challenges across states
Vacancies in medical institutions.
Establishment of functional district Cardiac Care Units.
Quality accreditation of public health facilities.
Institutionalization of Human Resources Management Information System.
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