Permission not given to Pacific medical college udaipur for MBBS admission

Permission not given to Pacific medical college udaipur by MOHFW for MBBS admission.
4th batch will not get admission.

Whereas the Medical Council of India vide letter dated 31.10.2017 recommended to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare not to renew the permission for admission of 150 MBBS seats in the year 2018-19 (4th batch) at Pacific Institute of Medical Sciences, Udaipur, Rajasthan and also applied Clause 8(3)(1)(b) of Establishment of Medical College Regulations, 1999 .

PMMVY Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana

Maternity Benefits Under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
 

            The maternity benefits under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) are available to all Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers (PW&LM) except those in regular employment with the Central Government or State Government or Public Sector Undertaking or those who are in receipt of similar benefits under any law for the time being in force, for first living child of the family as normally, the first pregnancy of a woman exposes her to new kind of challenges and stress factors. The objectives of the scheme are: (i) providing partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of cash incentives so that the woman can take adequate rest before and after delivery of the first living child; and (ii) the cash incentives provided would lead to improved health seeking behaviour amongst the Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PW&LM).

However, to address the problem of malnutrition and morbidity among children, the Anganwadi Services Scheme, which is universal, is available to all PW&LM including the second pregnancy. Further, in order to address the malnutrition and morbidity during pregnancies a number of interventions are provided to the pregnant women viz. universal screening of pregnant women for Anaemia and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation, Calcium supplementation in pregnancy, Deworming in pregnancy, Weight gain monitoring and Counselling on nutrition, family planning and prevention of diseases.

The Government of India has approved Pan-India implementation of PMMVY in all districts of the country w.e.f. 01.01.2017 under which the eligible beneficiaries gets Rs. 5,000/- under PMMVY and the remaining cash incentive as per approved norms (+1000 for urban) towards Maternity Benefit under Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) after institutional delivery so that on an average, a woman gets Rs. 6000/-.

 

Prerna award and scheme

National Population stabilization Fund

Prerna Award: In order to help push up the age of marriage of girls and space the birth of children in the interest of health of young mothers and infants, JSK launched PRERNA, a Responsible Parenthood strategy in all districts of seven high focus states namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Rajasthan. The strategy has been to identify the couple and award couples who have broken the stereotype of early marriage, early childbirth and repeated child birth and have helped change the mindsets of the community.

 

Prerna Scheme: In order to become eligible for award under the scheme, the girl should have been married on or after 19 years of age and given birth to the first child after at least 2 years of marriage. The couple will get an award of Rs.10,000/- if it is a Boy child or Rs.12,000/- if it is a Girl child. If birth of the second child takes place after at least 3 years of the birth of first child and either parent voluntarily accept permanent method of family planning within one year of the birth of the second child, the couple will get an additional award of Rs.5,000/- (Boy child) / Rs.7,000/- (Girl child). The amount of award will be given to the beneficiaries in their Adhar linked account through DBT.
The scheme is meant only for BPL families.

Attached – Prerna yojana scheme guideline and application format

New Specified Health Warning on Tobacco Products packs

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Posted On: 05 APR 2018 2:18PM by PIB Delhi

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has notified new sets of specified health warnings for all tobacco product packs by making an amendment in the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labeling) Rules, 2008 vide GSR 331(E) dated 3rd April 2018 “Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labeling) Second Amendment Rules, 2018”. The amended Rules will be applicable w.e.f. 1st September 2018.

The new set of specified health warnings shall be-

  1. Image-1, which shall be valid for a period of twelve months following its commencement.

Image- 1

 

 

(b)  Image-2,which shall come into effect following the end of twelve months from the date of commencement of specified health warning of Image-1.          

Image- 2                                      

 

One of the most important key features of the new set of specified health warnings will include telephone Quit-line number “QUIT TODAY CALL 1800-11-2356”. This will help in creating awareness among tobacco users, and give them access to counseling services to effect behavior change. It is also likely to lead to an increase in demand for tobacco cessation. Further, now the same set of warning images shall be on both smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco products.

The toll free Tobacco Quit-line Services [1800-11-2356] provides counseling and strategies for quitting tobacco use. As per the recent second round of Global Adult Tobacco Survey [GATS -2, 2016-17] conducted in the age group 15 years and above, 61.9% of current cigarette smokers, 53.8% of current bidi smokers and 46.2% of current smokeless tobacco users thought about quitting because of warning label on packets of cigarette, bidi and smokeless tobacco.

The said notification along with printable version of warnings is available on the Ministry’s website i.e. www.mohfw.gov.in. Printable versions of the new warnings in all regional languages shall also soon be made available on Ministry’s website. In view of the above, it is informed that before the new set of specified health warning come into force from 1st September, 2018, the existing specified health warnings on tobacco product packs shall be continued till 31st August, 2018, as per amendment made in the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labeling) Rules, 2008 vide GSR 283 (E) dated 26th March 2018.

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(Release ID: 1527824)