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PRESS RELEASE Samsung India has entered into a partnership with the Government of Uttar Pradesh to add 20 new Samsung Smart Healthcare centres across the state and provide affordable and quality healthcare to patients from the economically and socially weaker sections of society. As part of its Smart Healthcare program, Samsung will provide advanced and innovative healthcare equipment such as ultrasound and digital radiology (x-ray) machines manufactured by the Company along with a Samsung LED TV, Samsung air conditioner and refrigerator to selected government hospitals across the state. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Samsung India and the Department of Medical Health & Family Welfare, Government of Uttar Pradesh in the presence of Shri Siddharth Nath Singh, Minister

PRESS RELEASE Nestlé India celebrated their three-year long partnership with Magic Bus India Foundation, one of the largest behaviour change organisation at Kochi today. The celebration marks the completion of 3 years of the Nestlé Healthy Kids Programme which has reached out to over 150,000 adolescents across 18 states since the inception of the partnership. This partnership is based on sustained engagement on good nutritional practices and physical fitness among adolescents through sports-based sessions to make learning easy for the adolescents. Highlighting this initiative Mr. K. V. Thomas, Member of Parliament said, “I am happy to know that Nestlé India and Magic Bus have completed 3 years of partnership, which shows their commitment towards better health and wellness of adolescents.

INITIATIVE Robert A. Heinlein often regarded as ‘Dean of Science Fiction Writers’ had said “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” His words were precise in understanding the limitations of text books in imparting knowledge related to sciences. This text book centered inputs enables students to simply associate the questions about a phenomenon with a word or phrase without understanding conceptually the interactions involved. Science education, even at its best, develops competence but does not encourage ingenuity and creativity. Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL), identifies education as ‘the’ vital tool to promote socio-economical mobility. MGL commits itself in enhancing the quality of education and learning level outcomes in schools under its CSR initiative. MGL has taken up installation of Science

INITIATIVE Simple ideas make lofty technology. Rural traditions of life and workmanship need a scientific revamp still maintaining its rural identity. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has been goading scientific transformation through Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) is located in eight IITs and coordinated by the Office of the Principle Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Govt. of India. The National Innovation Foundation has also been giving fillip to innovative ideas at the inception level and has success stories appreciated worldwide. Drinking water often remains contaminated with microbes and particles.Who has thought of making a earthen pot subjected to a compression that minimizes its pores that let in contamination? A simple strategy with profound effect costing barely

OPINION Rapid agriculture growth and rapid rural employment growth were always the focus of India’s policy makers. Mahatma Gandhi envisaged India as a Nation of self-sufficient autonomous village republics. Land – the summum bonum of rural existence, and agricultural structure was the most important determinant of India’s development. Highly skewed distribution of land was responsible for agricultural backwardness. As land was the critical income generating asset of rural India, changes in agricultural holding structures were necessary to ensure prosperity of the rural population. Accordingly, India’s State policy focused on State Governments formulating and implementing Land Reforms legislations. These included the Land Ceiling Act, the Tenancy Act, the Land Revenue Act and broadly adopted the land to the tiller policy. Surplus

PRESS RELEASE On November 1, 2019, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the prestigious Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) to PepsiCo India for its efforts to save more than 17 billion litres of water through community water programmes and positively impacting thousands of community members. PepsiCo India has been named as global ACE Winner in Sustainable Operations in the Multinational Enterprise category for its sustainable farming initiative in India. The award recognizes the company’s efforts to save more than 17 billion litres of water through its community water programmes and replenishing over five billion litres of water, positively impacting 60,000 community members. Established in 1999, the ACE honours US companies that promote and uphold high standards as responsible

PRESS RELEASE Binita Shrivastava is an innovative entrepreneur, a passionate professional and a philanthropist. She is using her startup platform, Visionara Global India which oversees into events, public relations, media and productions; to raise funds for to support a non-government organization (NGO) through her initiative VG Mrs India — A National Beauty Pageant (A Gateway to International Pageant). After winning the crown of Classic Mrs India Overseas, Binita felt that there is need for a professional structure in the pageant industry especially for the Indian married women. So she decided to structure the beauty pageant industry for common women. Shrivastava is the founder of Visionara Global Mrs India, a premier beauty pageant. Being a small town girl, she wants to