07 Jun 2021 The pandemic has accelerated the priority of some areas, food safety being one of them. With the growing awareness on increasing our immunity, the intake of safe, wholesome and hygienic food has become central to our priorities. Essentially COVID is a health pandemic. Food and health are…
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World Environment Day 2021 – Focus on Ecosystem Restoration
05 Jun 2021 Ecosystems are the web of life on Earth and provide us with priceless benefits. People and planet are only as healthy as the ecosystems we all depend on. Our planet’s ecosystems are today threatened by climate change, nature loss, overexploitation and deadly pollution. Unless we take transformative…
Triggering an economic recovery after second wave
02 Jun 2021 After ravaging the country for almost two months, the second wave of the pandemic seems to be finally receding—a crucial development that raises expectations of gradual reopening of economic activity. While the caseloads are still high and there are significant imponderables about infection spread, questions abound about…
CII Recommendations for the Vaccine Drive
27 May 2021 Since the beginning of April 2021, many states in India have experienced a rather virulent second surge and this has thrown up multiple challenges. India’s healthcare systems and personnel have been stretched, and the multiple cracks in our healthcare infrastructure was exposed. Many states in the country…
CII COVID-19 Relief and Rehabilitation Initiatives
26 May 2021 The second wave of Coronavirus currently sweeping across the country is causing large-scale hardship and economic disruption in the country, which has already been facing enormous challenges since the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020. As India’s leading industry association, CII and the CII Foundation, and affiliates played…
The Crisis that’s Coming: Here’s How to Tackle This
20 May 2021 “Patients are dying in ICU because there are no nurses and doctors” is going to be the headline news after we address the oxygen shortage. Based on data from the first Covid wave, positivity rate should remain at 25-30 per cent for the next 3-4 months. Every…
Hastening the Vaccination Drive
18 May 2021 The second wave of Covid-19 is now firmly upon us- triggered by new variants of the virus which appear to be spreading faster than anticipated. The magnitude of the spread is far more pervasive, and the surge is much more severe than that experienced last year. Not…
Weld 4.0: Industry 4.0 in Welding
13 May 2021 The consistent implementation of Industry 4.0 has a decisive influence on the factory of the future, which will develop into a ‘smart factory’. For a ‘smart factory’ to work more or less autonomously without human interaction, some criteria must be met for welding applications. The welding know-how…
The industry and measures to save lives, livelihoods
06 May 2021 Today, the country is faced with a crisis of epic proportions. With several new mutant variants and a resurgence of infections, the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread at a rapid pace, affecting lives, livelihoods and the economy. With a national healthcare emergency of such…
Leveraging Next Generation Technologies for Aatmanirbhar Bharat
04 May 2021 The Prime Minister’ vision of reviving growth with self-reliance focuses on five major pillars of development: economy, infrastructure, technology driven systems, vibrant demography and sustained demand. While each of these five pillars are crucial for growth, technology driven systems is one aspect which is critical for the…