22 July 2020
Covid- 19 transforming rural economy
COVID-19 has given a clarion call for a technology enabled world, more so in the context of the Indian rural sector which has always stayed several steps behind the urban way of living. The slow progress could be attributed to not just lack of financial resources but also towards weak communication of functional knowledge, for a large population lacking literacy, and reliance on western technologies failing to cater to the requirements of the rural population of India. While the Government of India offers huge subsidies for mechanization of the rural sector, the farm machinery sector is yet to invest significantly in creating a market for indigenous technologies addressing the burning need of the Indian rural sector. Experts at IIT Kharagpur are answering this challenge by designing technologies well suited for the livelihood of the rural class of our country. The Institute, through its Precision Farming Development Centre, Farm Implements and Machinery and Rural Technology Action Group projects, has developed farm machineries including ranging from micro-irrigation, combined harvester, crop and vegetable planters, solar energy operated transplanters, groundnut diggers, ultrasonic sprayers. Further non-farming livelihood technologies for rural small scale and cottage industry have been mechanized. To name a few, Dhenki, Potter Wheel, Jute Rope making, Door Mat making, Amber Charkha, Rice Flaking. The initiative also includes social impact technologies such as Smokeless Chullahs, Rural Drinking Water Facility. We are also ensuring the technologies are being implemented either in their farms or being adopted to generate employment through startups, setting up self-help groups. Around 2500 farmers from nearby villages of West Bengal and Odisha have bene trained in micro-irrigation and protected cultivation structures. Several farmers who adopted these farm machineries and farm equipment reported decrease in labour cost, reduction in cost of cultivation, timeliness operations, improvement in pulverization, increase in soil fertility and production. Further, outreach programs were organized by the department of Agricultural and Food Engineering and the Rural Development Centre to communicate, train rural people and help their transition to mechanized farming and livelihoods. The livelihood technology adoption program witnessed significant acceptance in three North Eastern states including Assam, Manipur, Tripura as well as in several districts of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. India is moving at an accelerated pace towards digitization, and it is crucial to complement it with automation in the rural livelihood and farming sector and warrant a uniform progress. Such transition in rural livelihood will not only increase productivity and earnings manifold but will also lead to capacity building for rural and cottage industries, improved product quality, increased employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities in rural areas.
#CoronaVirusUpdates 08/07/2020
As of now 1,04,73,771 #COVID19 samples tested cumulatively taking the tests per million to 7180.
Network of #COVID19 labs expands to a total of 1119 labs. More than 2.6 lakh samples tested in the past 24 hours.
Cabinet approves extension of PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana providing Foodgrain for five months from July - Nov 2020. #CabinetDecisions https://transformingindia.mygov.in/
लगा रहे हैं जो #Corona पर लगाम
ऐसे योद्धाओं को देश का सलाम
Recovery Rate बढ़कर 61.53% हुआ
अब तक ठीक हुए मरीज़ों की संख्या 4, 56, 830
देश में कुल सक्रिय मामलों की संख्या 2, 64, 944
Covid- 19 transforming rural economy
COVID-19 has given a clarion call for a technology enabled world, more so in the context of the Indian rural sector which has always stayed several steps behind the urban way of living. The slow progress could be attributed to not just lack of financial resources but also towards weak communication of functional knowledge, for a large population lacking literacy, and reliance on western technologies failing to cater to the requirements of the rural population of India. While the Government of India offers huge subsidies for mechanization of the rural sector, the farm machinery sector is yet to invest significantly in creating a market for indigenous technologies addressing the burning need of the Indian rural sector. Experts at IIT Kharagpur are answering this challenge by designing technologies well suited for the livelihood of the rural class of our country. The Institute, through its Precision Farming Development Centre, Farm Implements and Machinery and Rural Technology Action Group projects, has developed farm machineries including ranging from micro-irrigation, combined harvester, crop and vegetable planters, solar energy operated transplanters, groundnut diggers, ultrasonic sprayers. Further non-farming livelihood technologies for rural small scale and cottage industry have been mechanized. To name a few, Dhenki, Potter Wheel, Jute Rope making, Door Mat making, Amber Charkha, Rice Flaking. The initiative also includes social impact technologies such as Smokeless Chullahs, Rural Drinking Water Facility. We are also ensuring the technologies are being implemented either in their farms or being adopted to generate employment through startups, setting up self-help groups. Around 2500 farmers from nearby villages of West Bengal and Odisha have bene trained in micro-irrigation and protected cultivation structures. Several farmers who adopted these farm machineries and farm equipment reported decrease in labour cost, reduction in cost of cultivation, timeliness operations, improvement in pulverization, increase in soil fertility and production. Further, outreach programs were organized by the department of Agricultural and Food Engineering and the Rural Development Centre to communicate, train rural people and help their transition to mechanized farming and livelihoods. The livelihood technology adoption program witnessed significant acceptance in three North Eastern states including Assam, Manipur, Tripura as well as in several districts of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. India is moving at an accelerated pace towards digitization, and it is crucial to complement it with automation in the rural livelihood and farming sector and warrant a uniform progress. Such transition in rural livelihood will not only increase productivity and earnings manifold but will also lead to capacity building for rural and cottage industries, improved product quality, increased employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities in rural areas.
#CoronaVirusUpdates 08/07/2020
As of now 1,04,73,771 #COVID19 samples tested cumulatively taking the tests per million to 7180.
Network of #COVID19 labs expands to a total of 1119 labs. More than 2.6 lakh samples tested in the past 24 hours.
Cabinet approves extension of PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana providing Foodgrain for five months from July - Nov 2020. #CabinetDecisions https://transformingindia.mygov.in/
लगा रहे हैं जो #Corona पर लगाम
ऐसे योद्धाओं को देश का सलाम
Recovery Rate बढ़कर 61.53% हुआ अब तक ठीक हुए मरीज़ों की संख्या 4, 56, 830 देश में कुल सक्रिय मामलों की संख्या 2, 64, 944
Take a look to know how the Government is ensuring smokeless kitchen for all.
Due to #COVID19, over 71 million people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 -- the first observed increase in global poverty in decades.
Find more information in the latest #SDGreport 2020: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2020/ #SDGs #HLPF
Due to #COVID19, over 71 million people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 -- the first observed increase in global poverty in decades.
Find more information in the latest #SDGreport 2020: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2020/ #SDGs #HLPF
अभी तक देश भर में 𝟏𝟑.𝟑𝟑 लाख से अधिक स्वास्थ्य एवं योग सत्र आयुष्मान भारत - हेल्थ एंड वेलनेस सेंटर्स पर आयोजित किए गए हैं।
मास्क घर पर आसानी से बनाया जा सकता है। 2 मास्क रखें और जरुरत के मुताबिक इसका समुचित इस्तेमाल करें।
Lessons for the world from COVID-19 pandemic
Theme:
COVID-19 pandemic caused so much damage to the world. While dealing with COVID-19, the world learned many lessons. And it’s important to learn the lessons to prepare ourselves for the next pandemic and also to prevent the possible pandemics.
Lessons for the world from COVID-19 pandemic:
- All the countries should maintain transparency with the other countries, especially in
this kind of virus situations and needs to share important information as soon as
possible. Had China alerted the world about the severity of the situation immediately
after knowing about the virus, all the other countries would have taken precautions
much earlier and the virus could be contained in one place.
- Lockdown to reduce the spread of Coronavirus cleared the skies and reduced the
pollution to a drastic extent. This made us realize that whatever damage we are doing
to the environment can be reversible. It made us focus more on sustainable
development.
- The demand for luxury goods fell to a great extent. COVID-19 hit consumerist culture
badly. This phase taught us that excessive consumerism is not needed.
- Even though coronavirus does not seem to be a biological weapon, the threat of bioweapons is real. The fight against COVID-19 taught us to be better prepared for the
future. Everyone understood that there is a need for more funding, equipment and
human resources in the health care industry.
- It also taught us that vulnerable people like migrant workers will be most affected by
this kind of situations. This phase taught us to take immediate steps to protect
vulnerable people.
- Living in a globalised world has advantages and disadvantages as well. Almost every
country is depending on the other countries for many goods. In the COVID-19
pandemic phase, when imports and exports are badly affected, all the countries are
realising the importance of self-sufficiency.
- During this phase, many companies especially IT companies allowed their employees
to work from home. It reduced traffic and enabled people to spend more time with
their families. COVID-19 taught companies that work from home option is not as bad
as they thought.
- Many people are now relying on the internet for many purposes like educating their
children, availing telemedicine facilities etc. But still many people are deprived of
internet access. This COVID-19 phase taught us that internet access should
be available to all to prevent deepening inequality.
Lessons for the world from COVID-19 pandemic.
- Now many people are taking healthy food and avoiding junk food to boost immunity.
Coronavirus taught us to focus on healthy eating habits.
Conclusion:
COVID-19 pandemic came when the world is least prepared for it. This phase taught us to be better prepared for the future.
KAWACH : IIT DELHI'S INNOVATION
With the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, we are using a variety of web tools and mobile apps for synchronous and asynchronous communication with school students and pupil teachers for teaching-learning and assessment. Video and audio (JITSI, Telegram, WhatApp) calls are used for synchronous communication and emails, SMS, MMS, audio-video clipping, text chatting are used for asynchronous communication. Even many teachers are teaching using Learning Management Systems (LMS) like SWAYAM, MOODLE, GOOGLE class etc. and Content Management Systems (CMS) and Open Educational Repositories like NROER, DIKSHA, NDL, CLIx, OLABs etc. All of us know very well that the age group of learners with which we are dealing are young and energetic and keen to explore new knowledge in a proactive manner. Mostly they use the electronic gazettes (mobile phone, desktop, tablet and laptop) of parents and other family members as well as use internet connections (both satellite and cable connections as well). Knowingly or unknowingly they may share vital security information like passwords also and may use an unsecure website and put themselves and others into trouble. Therefore, it is the responsibility of us teachers and teacher educators to keep students their parents safe and secure while using the online learning facilities. The following few tips can help all of us to protect ourselves from cyber threats: don’t inivite/accept friend request from unknown persons, don’t share personal information (Name, date of birth, address etc.) with strangers, never download unwanted and pirated software, games and apps, don’t reply to a call/reply to a stranger and be aggressive on social media, inform your parents and elders immediate in case of any issue. If required and if elders in the family feel they can lodge a complaint of any misbehavior and breach in security in online mode or inform to the local police and resolve the issue. Don’t over use technology rather use it judiciously. Also suggest physical activities and relaxing exercises – eye, neck, back and hand etc. while and after using it. So be safe, practice social distancing and learn from home online. Please read the detailed cyber safety and security tips and guidelines from the following link: https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=booklet-on-cyber-safetysecurity&ln=en&ln=en
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.
Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness.
The best way to prevent and slow down transmission is be well informed about the COVID-19 virus, the disease it causes and how it spreads. Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands or using an alcohol based rub frequently and not touching your face.
The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes, so it’s important that you also practice respiratory etiquette (for example, by coughing into a flexed elbow).
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