India’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, Bharat Bio-Tech’s Covaxin, was granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) by the World Health Organization on November 3. Covaxin is a whole virion-inactivated vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, developed in partnership with the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). It has been granted EUL for … Read more
According to the recent SBI study, the share of the large informal sector in overall economic activities shrank rapidly in the year 2020-21 even though the informal workers have faced all the misery caused by the pandemic. In the year 2017-18, the economic output of this informal sector was 52% as compared to 20% in … Read more
Gender Responsive Budgeting is related to the gender-sensitive formulation of programmes and schemes legislation, implementation and execution; allocation of resources, audit and impact assessment of programmes; and follow-up remedial action to address gender inequality. In 2004-05, India adopted gender budgeting based on the recommendations of a group committee constituted by the Finance Ministry on Classification … Read more