Prime Minister Modi has recently launched an app called Call Before You Dig to prevent uncoordinated digging that can cause damage to underground utility assets, such as optical fibre cables
The app has been developed jointly by the Department of Telecommunications and the Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics, which operates under the Gujarat government. Its primary aim is to protect the countrys underground public infrastructure
The Call Before You Dig app will facilitate coordination between excavators and asset owners through SMS/email notifications and click-to-call options
Rajasthan would become the first state in India to guarantee right tohealthcarefor its residents. The goal is for everyone to have access to free and quality healthcare irrespective of their ability to pay. Any resident of the state can demand provision of healthcare as a right from the government or take the government to court if it failed to do so. Doctors, led by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), have opposed this law. After complaining about various provisions in the law, the doctors have now demanded withdrawal of the entire law.
Most doctors thought that the law forced them to provide all services for free to patients. However, most free services talked about in the law are for government institutions. The law talks of people right to avail freeOPDservices, IPD services consultation, drugs, diagnostics, emergency transport, procedure, and emergency care provided by all public health institutions accordantly to their level of health care. In the right to avail free healthcare services, the government has scrapped the words any clinical establishment, which means this is mandated only for public health institution, health care establishment and designated health care centres in the prescribed manner and subject to terms and conditions specified in the rules. Most of the bill pertains to public health services. Doctors now take objection to the term designated healthcare centres saying any private establishment could be made one. However, the understanding is that a healthcare centre would be designated in consultation with that centre.