According to Ashwajit Singh, MD IPE Global, the initial bailout packages announced by the Government are mainly aimed at covering the common man and specially those below Below Poverty Line (BPL). Direct transfers and food security are good measures in the short run aimed at immediate survival, but medium to long term measures are required […]

Himanshu Sikka, chief strategy and diversification officer, Health, Nutrition and WASH, IPE Global said Government and Public Health Managers are very much aware of this possibility and the government discharge policy for covid-19 cases requires discharge after only two samples test negative within 24 hours and there’s evidence of chest radiographic clearance and viral clearance […]

Himanshu Sikka, Lead- Health, Nutrition & WASH, IPE Global said that Creating herd immunity will need at least 50-60% of world population getting infected, so that will also take time. Vaccine is also at best 18-24 month away. Even when vaccine is available reach and administration will have challenges.

Himanshu Sikka, lead-health, nutrition and WASH at IPE Global mentioned that Past surveillance-focused experience with elimination of small pox and polio would come handy. IPE Global has worked closely with Unicef and WHO in India on polio elimination and that level of door-to-door surveillance, combined with isolation of each identified case, seems to be the […]

Ashwajit Singh, Managing Director, IPE Global said While Countries around the world are implementing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, from national quarantines to school closures to sealing off borders, the testing time for India has come. “India is capable of withstanding a short lockdown but we need to be thinking and acting beyond […]

Ashwajit Singh, Managing Director, IPE Global maintains, “All said and done, Covid-19 is likely to have an adverse economic impact on the world economy. While the government is going all out to control the rising instances of Corona in the country, a pandemic such as this needs a collective response and a behavior shift at […]

A look at the changes that took place in the workplace culture in 2019 and what to expect in the future.

Odisha has been lauded for its achievements in implementing a range of progressive interventions in the domain of nutrition, such as the introduction of eggs and decentralised procurement in the Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP).