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Electric Mobility:- Having missed the first electronic revolution in the 1980s and the semiconductor fabrication opportunity in the 1990s, India can hardly afford to miss this emerging opportunity, offered by the transition to electric mobility, that combines multiple high technology industries. India has lost out in the solar power generation and mobile/smartphone industry previously and must act quickly to secure a position in the sunrise industry of battery storage and electric mobility . Both electric mobility and battery manufacturing are sunrise industries that must be encouraged if India is to become a globally competitive player in the coming decades. Otherwise, we not only stand to lose all export opportunities that are bound to open up in the coming years but also risk becoming a dumping ground for second-rate imported EVs from China and elsewhere. Using the advantage of large scale domestic demand in the EV sector, we would be able to create a dynamic and vibrant stor...

National Digital Health Mission (NDHM):- Outlining a new electronic records system using Aadhaar as an option for identification, a Ministry of Health and Family Welfare committee has recommended the setting up of a National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) to manage “enormous amounts of health data” generated by Ayushman Bharat, the Centre’s flagship health programme. Advantages: 1. Better public health management and fraud prevention. 2. Nurturing an ecosystem of health-related enterprises, creating jobs.  3. Consolidated health data means serve the beneficiary better, more so, if they are aided by artificial intelligence and big-data analytics. 4. Enormous advantage to medical research in the country.

Hand Made in India’ project:- Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) will now look to develop entrepreneurial competencies in about 5,000 weavers, artisans and traders to promote hand-made art. ‘Hand Made in India’ project to turn artisans into entrepreneurs - the project will be implemented in three years and in the first phase, it has been extended to six centres. These handloom clusters include   - Bhuj and Surendranagar in  Gujarat;  - Bargarh in Odisha;   - Kamrup in Assam;   - Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh, and   - Salem in Tamil Nadu.