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MUMBAI | TUESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2018 ECONOMY & PUBLIC AFFAIRS 5 . < AVISHEK RAKSHIT Kolkata, 24 September I ndia’s current trade in goods with its neighbouring countries in the South Asian region is a mere 30.65 per cent of the potential trade of $62 billion, which can be boosted if restric- tions on the current trade, such as tar- iffs, port restrictions and other non- tariff barriers can be eased, a World Bank report has said. India’s trade in South Asia accounts for $19.1 billion, which is just three per cent of its total global trade of $637.4 billion and around $43 billion below the potential. According to Sanjay Kathuria, lead economist at the World Bank, it is cheaper for India to import the same set of goods from Brazil compared to Pakistan, while for Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, imports from Nepal are more costly compared to Brazil, because of economic and non-eco- nomic barriers. The report indicates that while the trade between India and Pakistan stands at $2 billion without any trade barriers, this alone could go up to $37 billion, which will far exceed India’s current total trade with south Asian countries. Average tariffs in south Asia in 2016 stood at 13.6 per cent as against the global average tar- iff of 6.3 per cent. “Despite significant liberalisation in tariff regimes, south Asian coun- tries still maintain a long list of prod- ucts, which are exempted from the tar- iff liberalisation programme while several countries in this region main- tain high paratariffs that have not been included in the free trade agreements,” Kathuria said. According to Kathuria, liberalisa- tion of air services between India and Sri Lanka is an example of how coun- tries stand to benefit from such a process. The other key non-tariff issues impacting trade are lack of absorbing the imported goods in a consuming country, issues at the bor- ders and capacity of countries to pro- duce testing and certification centres for exports. Border Haat According to the World Bank, India come up with six more Border Haats (border marketplaces), taking the total to 10 from the existing four. These haats, which are set-up on the zero line between India and Bangladesh, are crucial towards trust- building measures between the buyers and sellers from both India and Bangladesh. Currently, on the Indian side of the border, two such border haats are located in Meghalaya in Kalaichar in West Garo Hills and Balat in East Garo Hills, while another two are in Tripura in Srinagar and Kamalsagar. Although not featuring as a signifi- cant revenue contributor for either India or Bangladesh in their foreign trade, such weekly marketplaces bring in people from both sides of the bor- der together and help in confidence building measures. $ 637.4 billion India’s total trade with the world $ 19.1 billion India’s total trade with South Asia Top 3 trading partners in South Asia for India – Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal 13.6% Average Tariffs in South Asia, which is double the world average of 6.3% TRADE NUMBERS India’s trade with neighbours only 31% of total potential: World Bank Monsoon withdrawal from Saturday: IMD SANJEEB MUKHERJEE New Delhi, 24 September The sudden increase in rainfall intensity over northern and central parts of the country in the past few days could impact the final yield of paddy in fields where ‘lodging’ has tak- en place, say farm scientists. However, the exact quantum of the damage and extent of the loss will be ascertained only after a proper assessment is done. ‘Lodging’ is bending over of crops — mainly cereals — near the ground level that makes them difficult to har- vest and leads to lower yields. It mainly occurs when rains are accompanied by heavy winds in excess of 25 kmph. The standing cotton crop has also been impacted in Punjab and Haryana. In Central India, soybean and pulses crops have also been hit but government offi- cials said the loss isn’t massive as the showers were followed by relatively bri- ght sunshine that helped absorb soil moisture. Farmer groups though disputed the claims, saying almost 10-15 per cent of the crop has been destroyed in the rains. “In paddy growing areas of Haryana, Punjab and Western Uttar Pradesh, there have been complaints of ‘lodging’ in some fields and yields might go down in them especially if the crop is in harvesting stage, while in those fields where the crop hasn’t yet matured, there might not be any big damage because the stems are flexible enough to resurrect after flat- tening,” K K Singh, head of agromet division of India Meteorological Department (IMD) told Business Standard. “In western Uttar Pradesh districts of Baghpat, Meerut, Muzzafarnagar, Mathura and areas surrounding the Yamuna river in Haryana, paddy fields have been impacted due to the sudden rains and heavy winds. However, the exact extent of damage is yet to be ascertained,” a senior scientist from a Krishi Vikas Kendra said. As regards to soybean and pulses, Sunil Dutt Billore, direc- tor of Indore-based Indian Institute of Soybean Research (IISR), said that so far they haven’t received information of any big or large-scale damage to standing soybean crop from anywhere in Madhya Pradesh because after few days of good rains, the sky opened up to bright sunshine which should dry up the fields. The retreating southwest monsoon caused heavy rain in parts of northern, central and western India over the weekend under the influence of a low pressure area and cyclonic movements. According to a PTI report, the showers triggered flash floods and landslides in the hill states of northern India with at least eight people killed on Monday in rain- related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. The IMD, meanwhile, said that southwest monsoon would start withdrawing from September 29, a delay of almost a month from its usual with- drawal date. Rain to affect paddy yield in north India Southwest monsoon caused heavy rains in parts of Northern, Central and Western India over weekend The ED will soon file a charge sheet under the anti-money laundering law against the Sandesara brothers, wanted in an over ~50 billion alleged bank loan fraud case, pro- moters of a Gujarat-based pharmaceutical company, officials said on Monday. The central probe agency will seek Interpol red corner notices (global arrest war- rants) against the brothers and other accused based on this criminal complaint even as their exact locations remain unknown and changing — from UAE to Nigeria, the offi- cials said. The ED had filed few charge sheets, called pros- ecution complaints, in this case against other accused. The agency had registered a PMLA case against Chetan Jayantilal Sandesara and Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara and their Sterling Biotech and others on October 27, two days after a case of alleged bank fraud of ~57 billion. PTI ED charge sheet against Gujarat-based pharma firm Advertorial D aunting as it may be termed but Ayushman Bharat is now a reality. A giant leap towards Universal Health by making healthcare easily affordable to every individual at the grassroots; this National Health Protection Mission is one of its kinds as it is world’s largest government-funded healthcare programme, both in terms of size and magnitude. The higher the ambition, more is the apprehension and Ayushman Bharat is no exception. Honouring the fundamental rights of its citizens to adequate healthcare, the Government of India did give healthcare the top pri- ority, but the journey is definitely not going to be a cake- walk.We are talking of providing adequate healthcare to millions of people and thus a number of questions relat- ing to infrastructure, management, fool-proof mecha- nisms and others cross the mind. It was to dispel these clouds of apprehensions and doubts that the Birla Institute of ManagementTechnolo- gy (BIMTECH) organized a round-table discussion on Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission – Opportunities & Challenges.The round-table was or- ganized at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on 22 September, 2018. The idea behind the round table, said Prof. (Dr) H Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH, was to get answers to the ifs and buts from the stalwarts of the healthcare in- dustry. This would help in making a blueprint as to how can each one of us can contribute towards the vision of Ayushman Bharat. A good health system is primarily judged on its impact on better healthcare delivery sys- tem, equitable distribution and more importantly the con- fidence of its people on its health system The Scheme aims to adopt a continuum of holistic ap- proach to healthcare comprising two principal pillars – creation of 1.5 lakh health and wellness centers across India and successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya yojana. The out of pocket has a devastating effect on people with less means.Ayushman Bharat can reverse the trend of inverse care and impoverishing care.Marginalized sec- tion of the population suffers a lot in the absence of social protection when confronted with catastrophic healthcare expenses.67% healthcare financing in India comes from out of pocket expenditure. In such a scenario, insurance can play a vital role, said Alamelu T.Lakshmanachari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Agriculture Insur- ance Company of India Limited. “Insurance can help in changing the face of health and wellness of any state or nation as a whole” observed Alamelu T. who also head- ed the health portfolio of New India Assurance Co.Ltd as Director and General Manager in her previous assign- ment. To explain her point she quoted the example of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s comprehensive health scheme that grew from BPL level people to all state government staff to all retired people.The sum insured grew from 30,000 to 1.5 lakh to 3 lakhs.This scheme led to strength- ening the Primary Health Centers thus strengthening the entire structure of healthcare. When asked why the Healthcare system, the key con- stituent of the architecture of contemporary Indian soci- ety is not performing as it should be, Denny John, Evi- dence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration said that there is a need to strengthen the secondary care in India as with Ayushman Bharat, there will be manifold in- crease in the number of healthcare seekers and the re- sources, and the present structures are not good enough to meet the needs. Denny, who is also an Adjunct Scientist with the Na- tional Institute of Medical Statistics and Indian Council of Medical Research opined that India’s public health sys- tem need to be strengthened to meet the increasing health- care needs of its population.He was pointing at the chal- lenges that may limit the success of the scheme. There are not enough MBBS doctors and the num- ber of nurses and paramedics need to increase manifold. The referral system is not congenial in India, even for small ailments like fever, we tend to run to the specialists unlike the western nations where these are dealt with at the levels of nurses or primary care.So, the referral sys- tem needs a lot of changes and must emerge as a potent gatekeeper, opined the panel. Bringing a new angle to the discussion, Kashipa Har- it stated the need to document the practices.Dr.Harit, As- sistant Director with NABH strongly felt that there was near absence of documentation.Documentation was the only way that will save the practices, the people and pa- tients.The need is to strengthen the processes and also the documentation part. OPPORTUNITIES ASHA and Anganwadi workers would define the health- care progression in rural and remote areas and indirect- ly boost the healthcare sector.As the coverage of insur- ance/protection grows, healthcare boundaries would ex- pand.This would also generate a pool of employment op- portunities as there would be a need of a huge number of medical staff – especially the paramedics to execute the programme.Ayushman Bharat like NHS can also emerge as the biggest employer directly or indirectly in days to come - observed Prof. Abhijit Chattoraj of BIMTECH. Another vertical that has already generated employ- ment opportunities is the telephone-line support center. As Ms.Jaswal, currently, a senior Consultant withWorld Bank in India explained that as the news is spreading, the helpline centers are receiving 1000s of calls where people are curious to know if they are covered, if they are not then how can they be covered.This apart, the bene- ficiaries can also call the helplines to inquire about avail- ability of beds, treatments and facilities available in their areas.These thousands of calls are indicative of the huge unmet demand in the sector and thus Ayushman has giv- en an opportunity to address these demands. TECHNOLOGY – THE GAMECHANGER Taking the magnitude into consideration, 31 states and Union territories are implementing the scheme. In such a scenario, technology plays a pivotal role in bridging the supply and demand.Phonelines, national call centers, activation codes for enrollment, website, online database for vacancies, availabilities and consultation are definite- ly going to smoothen the process. Better communication will facilitate high-tech meth- ods to cure diseases reach to all the health centers. The website also plays a major role when it comes to aware- ness. “The quality of healthcare is another challenge in India.There is absence of evidence based medicine or treatment.India also should develop an organization like NICE, UK (National Institute of Health and clinical excel- lence) that can develop clinical guidance-based on rele- vance evidence of clinical effectiveness and cost effec- tiveness”, observed the panelists. India’s Ayushman can transform the nation’s health- care system but for the challenges of medical staff-short- age, not enough doctors, fraudulent claims, corruption within and outside medical boundaries and above all low awareness. Ayushman Bharat is going to give a totally new business model for insurance, which will be strengthening the scheme, where we will be get- ting into more of wellness, pre- ventive sort of insurance and that’s what is the need today. AlameluT. Lakshmanachari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd. India’s Healthcare should be built around the values of Pri- mary care. Government an- nounces that Ayushman Bharat will take care of 50-55 crore people which is a very bold initiative and if imple- mented properly, can change the healthcare landscape of India forever. Prof (Dr) Abhijit K Chattoraj, Professor & Chairperson Proramme for Insurance Business Management (PGDM-IBM), BIMTECH Ayushman Bharat is trying to change the health seeking behavior of the people. The entire ecosystem of health- care gets a push by inclusion of those who could not seek healthcare because of fi- nancial constraints would now be able to do so. Ms. Malti Jaiswal, Senior Consultant, World Bank Ayushman Bharat, the biggest social security scheme in the world, is a rev- olutionary initiative of Govt.of India.It would usher in an era of better quality of life, social peace and security. Dr.Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director – BIMTECH QUOTE UNQUOTE AYUSHMAN BHARAT – TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM OF HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM Dignitaries at the round-table discussion on Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission – Opportunities & Challenges, organised by Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi. DIPR/3900/Tender/2018 Chief General Manager (P&BD) Chennai Metro rail liMited (A Joint Venture of Govt. of India and Govt. of Tamil Nadu) Admin Building, CMRL Depot, Poonamallee High Road, Koyambedu, Chennai - 600107. Contract Name Tender for Semi-Naming Rights in 31 CMRL Metro Staons along Corridor-I & II of Phase-I CMRL invites tender on single stage two packet system (Technical and Financial) only through e-procurement bids on Naonal Compeve Bidding for the tender for "Semi-Naming Rights in 31 CMRL Metro Staons along Corridor - I & II of Phase - I". (Ref Tender CMRL/BD/ SNR/2018/490/01) Tender Documents can be downloaded from e-procurement website: E-Tender Publicaon date: 29/09/2018 (10:00 Hrs.), Last date of bid- submission: 09/11/2018 (15:00 Hrs.) For complete details, please visit e-procurement website: hp://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app Any Corrigendum/Addendum to this publicaon, if any, would appear only on above menoned website and will not be published in newspapers. Tender Authority: Chief General Manager (P&BD), Chennai Metro Rail Limited, Admin Building, CMRL Depot, Poonamallee High Road, Koyambedu, Chennai - 600 107 Phone 044-2379 2000. NoTICe INVITING e-TeNDeR
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AVISHEK RAKSHITKolkata, 24 September
India’s current trade in goodswithits neighbouring countries in theSouthAsian region is amere30.65
per cent of the potential trade of $62billion,whichcanbeboosted if restric-tionson thecurrent trade, suchas tar-iffs, port restrictions and other non-tariff barriers can be eased, a WorldBank report has said.
India’s trade inSouthAsiaaccountsfor $19.1 billion,which is just threepercent of its total global trade of $637.4billion and around $43 billion belowthe potential.
According toSanjayKathuria, leadeconomist at the World Bank, it ischeaper for India to import the sameset of goods from Brazil compared toPakistan, while for Sri Lanka orBangladesh, imports from Nepal aremore costly compared to Brazil,because of economic and non-eco-nomic barriers. The report indicatesthatwhile the tradebetweenIndiaandPakistan stands at $2 billion withoutany tradebarriers, this alone could go
up to$37billion,whichwill far exceedIndia’s current total trade with southAsian countries. Average tariffs insouth Asia in 2016 stood at 13.6 percent as against the global average tar-iff of 6.3 per cent.
“Despite significant liberalisationin tariff regimes, south Asian coun-tries still maintain a long list of prod-ucts,whichareexemptedfromthe tar-iff liberalisation programme while
several countries in this regionmain-tainhighparatariffs thathavenotbeenincluded inthe free tradeagreements,”Kathuria said.
According to Kathuria, liberalisa-tion of air services between India andSri Lanka is an example of how coun-tries stand to benefit from such aprocess. The other key non-tariffissues impacting trade are lack ofabsorbing the imported goods in a
consuming country, issues at the bor-ders and capacity of countries to pro-duce testing and certification centresfor exports.
BorderHaatAccording to the World Bank, Indiacome up with six more Border Haats(bordermarketplaces), taking the totalto 10 from the existing four.These haats, which are set-up on thezero line between India andBangladesh, are crucial towards trust-buildingmeasuresbetweenthebuyersand sellers from both India andBangladesh.
Currently, on the Indian sideof theborder, two such border haats arelocated in Meghalaya in Kalaichar inWestGaroHills andBalat inEastGaroHills,while another twoare inTripurain Srinagar and Kamalsagar.Although not featuring as a signifi-cant revenue contributor for eitherIndia or Bangladesh in their foreigntrade, suchweeklymarketplacesbringin people from both sides of the bor-der together and help in confidencebuildingmeasures.
$637.4billionIndia’stotaltradewiththeworld
$19.1billionIndia’stotaltradewithSouthAsia
Top3tradingpartnersinSouthAsiaforIndia–Bangladesh,SriLanka,Nepal
13.6%AverageTariffsinSouthAsia,whichisdoubletheworldaverageof6.3%
TRADE NUMBERS
India’s trade with neighbours only31% of total potential: World Bank
MonsoonwithdrawalfromSaturday:IMD
SANJEEB MUKHERJEENew Delhi, 24 September
Thesuddenincrease inrainfallintensity over northern andcentral parts of the country inthepast fewdayscould impactthe final yield of paddy infields where ‘lodging’ has tak-en place, say farm scientists.However, the exact quantumof the damage and extent ofthe loss will be ascertainedonlyafter aproperassessmentis done.
‘Lodging’ is bending overof crops — mainly cereals —near the ground level thatmakes them difficult to har-vest and leads to loweryields. It mainly occurs whenrains are accompanied by
heavy winds in excess of 25kmph. The standing cottoncrop has also been impactedin Punjab andHaryana.
In Central India, soybeanand pulses crops have alsobeen hit but government offi-cials said the loss isn’tmassiveas the showers were followedby relatively bri-ght sunshine thathelpedabsorbsoilmoisture. Farmergroups thoughdisputed theclaims, sayingalmost 10-15 percent of the crophasbeendestroyedintherains.
“Inpaddygrowing areas ofHaryana, Punjab andWesternUttarPradesh, therehavebeencomplaints of ‘lodging’ insome fields and yields mightgo down in them especially ifthecrop is inharvesting stage,while in those fieldswhere thecrophasn’t yetmatured, there
might not be any big damagebecause the stems are flexibleenough to resurrect after flat-tening,” K K Singh, head ofagromet division of IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) toldBusiness Standard.
“In western Uttar Pradeshdistricts of Baghpat, Meerut,
Muzzafarnagar,Mathuraandareassurrounding theYamuna river inHaryana, paddyfields have beenimpacted due tothe sudden rainsand heavy winds.
However, the exact extent ofdamageisyettobeascertained,”a senior scientist from a KrishiVikasKendra said.
As regards to soybean andpulses,SunilDuttBillore,direc-tor of Indore-based IndianInstitute of Soybean Research(IISR), said that so far theyhaven’treceivedinformationof
any big or large-scale damageto standing soybean crop fromanywhere in Madhya Pradeshbecause after few days of goodrains, the sky opened up tobright sunshine which shoulddryup the fields.
The retreating southwestmonsoon caused heavy rain inparts of northern, central andwesternIndiaovertheweekendunder the influence of a lowpressure area and cyclonicmovements.
AccordingtoaPTIreport,theshowers triggered flash floodsandlandslidesinthehillstatesofnorthernIndiawithatleasteightpeoplekilledonMondayinrain-relatedincidentsinJammuandKashmir,HimachalPradeshandHaryana.
The IMD, meanwhile, saidthatsouthwestmonsoonwouldstart withdrawing fromSeptember29,adelayofalmosta month from its usual with-drawaldate.
RaintoaffectpaddyyieldinnorthIndia
Southwest monsooncaused heavy rainsin parts of Northern,Central and WesternIndia over weekend
TheEDwill soonfileachargesheet under the anti-moneylaundering law against theSandesara brothers, wantedin an over ~50 billion allegedbank loan fraud case, pro-moters of a Gujarat-basedpharmaceutical company,officials saidonMonday.
The central probe agencywill seek Interpol red cornernotices (global arrest war-rants) against the brothersand other accused based onthis criminal complaint evenastheirexactlocationsremainunknown and changing —fromUAEtoNigeria, theoffi-cials said. The ED had filedfewchargesheets,calledpros-ecution complaints, in thiscase against other accused.The agency had registered aPMLA case against ChetanJayantilal Sandesara andNitin Jayantilal SandesaraandtheirSterlingBiotechandothersonOctober27,twodaysafter a case of alleged bankfraudof ~57billion. PTI
ED chargesheet againstGujarat-basedpharma firm
Advertorial
Dauntingas itmaybetermedbutAyushmanBharatis now a reality. A giant leap towards UniversalHealth by making healthcare easily affordable to
every individual at the grassroots; this National HealthProtectionMissionisoneof itskindsasit isworld’s largestgovernment-fundedhealthcareprogramme,bothintermsof size and magnitude.
The higher the ambition, more is the apprehensionand Ayushman Bharat is no exception.Honouring thefundamental rightsof itscitizens toadequatehealthcare,the Government of India did give healthcare the top pri-ority, but the journey is definitely not going to be a cake-walk.Weare talkingofprovidingadequatehealthcare tomillions of people and thus a number of questions relat-ing to infrastructure, management, fool-proof mecha-nisms and others cross the mind.
It was to dispel these clouds of apprehensions anddoubts that theBirla InstituteofManagementTechnolo-gy (BIMTECH) organized a round-table discussion onAyushmanBharat– NationalHealthProtection Mission– Opportunities & Challenges.The round-table was or-ganized at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on22 September, 2018.
The idea behind the round table, said Prof. (Dr) HChaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH, was to get answers tothe ifs and buts from the stalwarts of the healthcare in-dustry.This would help in making a blueprint as to howcan each one of us can contribute towards the vision ofAyushman Bharat. A good health system is primarilyjudged on its impact on better healthcare delivery sys-tem,equitabledistributionandmore importantly thecon-fidence of its people on its health system
TheSchemeaimstoadoptacontinuumofholisticap-proach to healthcare comprising two principal pillars –creation of 1.5 lakh health and wellness centers acrossIndiaandsuccessful implementationofPradhanMantriJan Arogya yojana.
The out of pocket has a devastating effect on peoplewith lessmeans.AyushmanBharatcanreversethetrendof inversecareandimpoverishingcare.Marginalizedsec-tionof thepopulationsuffersa lot in theabsenceofsocialprotectionwhenconfrontedwithcatastrophichealthcareexpenses.67%healthcarefinancing in Indiacomesfromoutofpocketexpenditure. Insuchascenario, insurancecan play a vital role, said Alamelu T.Lakshmanachari,Chairman-cum-ManagingDirectorofAgriculture Insur-ance Company of India Limited.“Insurance can help inchanging the face of health and wellness of any state ornation as a whole”observed AlameluT.who also head-edthehealthportfolioofNewIndiaAssuranceCo.LtdasDirector and General Manager in her previous assign-ment. To explain her point she quoted the example ofTamilNaduChiefMinister’scomprehensivehealthschemethat grew from BPL level people to all state governmentstaff to all retired people.The sum insured grew from30,000to1.5 lakhto3 lakhs.Thisschemeledtostrength-eningthePrimaryHealthCenters thusstrengtheningtheentire structure of healthcare.
WhenaskedwhytheHealthcaresystem,thekeycon-
stituent of the architecture of contemporary Indian soci-ety is not performing as it should be, Denny John, Evi-denceSynthesisSpecialist,CampbellCollaborationsaidthat there is a need to strengthen the secondary care inIndiaaswithAyushmanBharat, therewillbemanifold in-crease in the number of healthcare seekers and the re-sources,and thepresentstructuresarenotgoodenoughto meet the needs.
Denny, who is also an Adjunct Scientist with the Na-tional InstituteofMedicalStatisticsandIndianCouncilofMedical Research opined that India’s public health sys-temneedtobestrengthenedtomeettheincreasinghealth-careneedsof itspopulation.Hewaspointingat thechal-lenges that may limit the success of the scheme.
There are not enough MBBS doctors and the num-berofnursesandparamedicsneedto increasemanifold.The referral system is not congenial in India, even forsmallailments like fever,wetend to run to thespecialistsunlike the western nations where these are dealt with atthe levels of nurses or primary care.So, the referral sys-temneedsa lotofchangesandmustemergeasapotentgatekeeper, opined the panel.
Bringinganewangleto thediscussion,KashipaHar-itstatedtheneedtodocument thepractices.Dr.Harit,As-sistant Director with NABH strongly felt that there wasnearabsenceofdocumentation.Documentationwastheonly way that will save the practices, the people and pa-tients.Theneed is tostrengthen theprocessesandalso
the documentation part.
OPPORTUNITIESASHAandAnganwadiworkerswoulddefinethehealth-
careprogression in ruralandremoteareasand indirect-ly boost the healthcare sector.As the coverage of insur-ance/protectiongrows,healthcareboundarieswouldex-pand.Thiswouldalsogenerateapoolofemploymentop-portunities as there would be a need of a huge numberof medical staff – especially the paramedics to executethe programme.Ayushman Bharat like NHS can alsoemerge as the biggest employer directly or indirectly indays to come - observed Prof. Abhijit Chattoraj of
BIMTECH.Another vertical that has already generated employ-
mentopportunities is the telephone-linesupportcenter.AsMs.Jaswal, currently, aseniorConsultantwithWorldBank in India explained that as the news is spreading,the helpline centers are receiving 1000s of calls wherepeoplearecurious toknowif theyarecovered, if theyarenot then how can they be covered.This apart, the bene-ficiariescanalsocall thehelplines to inquireaboutavail-ability of beds, treatments and facilities available in theirareas.Thesethousandsofcallsare indicativeof thehugeunmetdemandinthesectorandthusAyushmanhasgiv-en an opportunity to address these demands.
TECHNOLOGY – THE GAMECHANGERTaking the magnitude into consideration, 31 states andUnion territories are implementing the scheme.In such ascenario, technology plays a pivotal role in bridging thesupply and demand.Phonelines, national call centers,activation codes for enrollment, website, online databasefor vacancies, availabilities and consultation are definite-ly going to smoothen the process.
Better communication will facilitate high-tech meth-ods to cure diseases reach to all the health centers. Thewebsite also plays a major role when it comes to aware-ness. “The quality of healthcare is another challenge in
India.There is absence of evidence based medicine ortreatment.India also should develop an organization likeNICE, UK (National Institute of Health and clinical excel-lence) that can develop clinical guidance-based on rele-vance evidence of clinical effectiveness and cost effec-tiveness”, observed the panelists.
India’s Ayushman can transform the nation’s health-care system but for the challenges of medical staff-short-age, not enough doctors, fraudulent claims, corruptionwithin and outside medical boundaries and above all lowawareness.
AyushmanBharat isgoing togive a totally new businessmodel for insurance, whichwill be strengthening thescheme,wherewewillbeget-ting intomoreofwellness,pre-ventivesortof insuranceandthat’s what is the need today.
AlameluT.Lakshmanachari,Chairman-cum-Managing Director
Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd.
India’sHealthcareshouldbebuilt around thevaluesofPri-mary care. Government an-nounces that AyushmanBharatwill takecareof50-55crore people which is a verybold initiative and if imple-mentedproperly,canchangethe healthcare landscape of
India forever.Prof (Dr) Abhijit K Chattoraj,
Professor & ChairpersonProramme for Insurance Business
Management (PGDM-IBM), BIMTECH
AyushmanBharat is trying tochange the health seekingbehavior of the people. Theentire ecosystem of health-caregetsapushby inclusionof those who could not seekhealthcare because of fi-nancial constraints wouldnow be able to do so.
Ms.Malti Jaiswal,Senior Consultant,World Bank
Ayushman Bharat, thebiggest social securityscheme in theworld, isa rev-olutionary initiativeofGovt.ofIndia.Itwouldusher inaneraof better quality of life, socialpeace and security.
Dr.Harivansh Chaturvedi,Director – BIMTECH
QUOTEUNQUOTEAYUSHMAN BHARAT – TOWARDS A NEW
PARADIGM OF HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM
Dignitaries at the round-table discussion on Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission – Opportunities & Challenges, organised byBirla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi.
DIPR/3900/Tender/2018 Chief General Manager (P&BD)
Chennai Metro rail liMited(A Joint Venture of Govt. of India and Govt. of Tamil Nadu)Admin Building, CMRL Depot, Poonamallee High Road,
Koyambedu, Chennai - 600107.
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