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17 JULY 2020THE HINDU ANALYSIS

-BY AMIT SIR

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RISING CASES● India is now the country with

third highest COVID-19 cases in the world.

● We have crossed the million mark on thursday with new high of 35k

● With overall death toll of ~25000, being 8th highest in the world.

● Worst affected is the state of Maharashtra with around 8000 cases per day.

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POSITIVE NEWS

● India has done almost 1.3 crore tests, with current rate of 3 lac/day

● Death per thousand cases is very low

● Propose FLTCs of KERALA govt in every panchayat can be a game changer, FLCTs are FIRST LINE TREATMENT CENTRES

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Rajasthan Assembly tussle

● Aaya Ram Gaya Ram was a phrase that became popular in Indian politics after a Haryana MLA Gaya Lal changed his party thrice within the same day in 1967.

● To curb this horse-trading, 10th Amendment was made to Indian constitution, called Anti-Defection law.

● Recently, Rajasthan Assembly speaker disqualified 18 MLAs for not attending party meeting and these MLAs have moved to High Court against this decision

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DECLINING MMR● India’s MMR has declined from 130 to

113 during 2014-16, as per data released by Office of Registrar General

● MMR, defined as the number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births.

● The target 3.1 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by the United Nations aims to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 1,00,000 live births.

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● IT is a measure of reproductive health of women in the area.● As per the World Health Organization, maternal death is the death of

a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, from any cause related to aggravated by the pregnancy or its management

● Assam (215), Bihar (149), Madhya Pradesh (173), Chhattisgarh (159), Odisha (150), Rajasthan (164),Uttar Pradesh (197) and Uttarakhand (99).

● The southern States registered a lower MMR — Andhra Pradesh (65), Telangana (63), Karnataka (92), Kerala (43) and Tamil Nadu (60).

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DISABLED ARE NOW EQUAL TO SC/ST

● Supreme Court has recognised the plight of disabled and thus held that they are entitled to same benefits as SC/ST

● In 2012, Delhi high court gave the same decision, recognising them as socially backward community

● This would help them on better access to education and employment

● As per 2011 census, illiteracy among disabled is around 51%, which is much higher than general population. Join Telegram Group

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Steps taken for disabled● Various legislations have been passed

beginning with Person with Disabilities Act, 1995, recognising the rights of disabled

● Recent one in the category is Rights of person with Disabilities Act, 2016, which increased the quota for disabled from 3% to 5% and also giving incentives to private companies hiring them

● SUGAMYA BHARAT ABHIYAN o ACCESSIBLE INDIA CAMPAIGN was launched to make disabled friendly infrastructure Join Telegram Group

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Thank you

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