Keep up-to-date with all that is happening in welfare policy with this curated selection of news, published every fortnight.

Policy News

• The implementation roadmap for school education (linked to the National Education Policy) dubbed ‘Students’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement through Quality Education (SARTHAQ)’ has been released.
• End-of-term exams for class 10th have been cancelled, and class 12th postponed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) along with some state boards taking similar decisions. Meanwhile, the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) has postponed exams for now too.
• A new app called MANAS has been launched to promote mental health and wellbeing in India.

Coronavirus-focus News

• India has the second-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world.
• The cumulative vaccination doses administered has crossed 12 crore, the Union government has said.
• In a bid to augment the production capacity of indigenously-produced ‘Covaxin’, the Union government has announced Mission COVID Suraksha.

Other News

• A new national climate vulnerability assessment report has identified Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, and West Bengal, to be highly vulnerable to climate change. More details are available here.