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An Inspiration to the Government of India - Very organized and controlled, fighting fit bureaucracy !

Narendra Modi led rescue efforts in Uttarakhand are not publicity gimmicks

26 Jun, 2013, 10.12AM IST

Gujarat today has a fighting-fit bureaucracy because it was enabled to develop expertise, team spirit and deliver results under the most adverse circumstances

By : Madhu Kishwar

When on Saturday evening, TV channels brought the news that Narendra Modi's visit to Uttarakhand to oversee relief operations had kicked off a major political storm, I decided to go and check for myself whether this was indeed a cheap publicity gimmick as alleged by the Congress or a serious response to a tragedy.

Here's my take, one that I know will find many disagreeing: those who call Modi a Rambo or a publicity-hungry politician have no clue what they are dealing with. Consider the following. Gujarat today has a fighting-fit bureaucracy because it was enabled to develop expertise, team spirit and deliver results under the most adverse circumstances.

The Gujarat Disaster Management Authority ( GDMA) has become a thoroughly professional institution capable of responding to natural or man-made disasters. It has a 24x7 monitoring system and well-publicised helpline numbers well known to Gujaratis - both in the country and abroad. Modi has succeeded in conveying to the citizens of Gujarat that the government is always there to serve them. That is why the first response of Gujaratis anywhere in the world is to contact the chief minister's office if they are caught in a calamity.

Also, consider this. Modi arrived in Delhi late 17th night for a meeting with the Planning Commission on 18th when news of cloudburst and landslides was telecast on TV. He held an emergency meeting to take stock of the situation since he knew that thousands of Gujaratis are likely to be among the Chardham pilgrims . Right away, a camp office was opened at Gujarat Bhavan and the Resident Commissioner's team in Delhi was made responsible for coordinating with Gujarati pilgrims.

Early-Mover Advantage

On the 18th morning, Modi called Dr Pranav Pandya of the All World Gayatri Parivar to provide space and infrastructure in his Shanti Kunj campus for the relief centre proposed to be set up by the Gujarat government . He chose this campus because of his close knowledge of, and rapport with, this Gandhian institution that can house and feed thousands of people at a short notice.

It has a 2,000-strong community of swayamsevaks on the campus, plus 3,000-odd students of the Dev Sanskriti University. The campus also has a well-run hospital.

On the 18th evening itself, a set of computers with internet connections , telephone lines, television sets and all other paraphernalia required for Gujarat government's relief operation were set up. Therefore, when a team of Gujarat government IAS, IPS and IFS officers came, they could get going within minutes of reaching Shanti Kunj.

Team Gujarat had two officers from Uttarakhand - Assistant Director General of Police Bisht and Forest Service officer SC Pant - who had close knowledge of the terrain to guide both the stranded pilgrims as well as rescue teams on the safest possible routes to take. ADG Bisht went straight to Gupta Kashi from where the rescue operations are being launched.

A team of seven doctors trained in handling such emergencies, led by an orthopaedic surgeon, not only put in place an efficient first-aid service but are also attending to those severely injured.

I saw them go around to other relief camps and railway stations to attend to non-Gujaratis as well. The mandate of Team Gujarat in Uttarakhand is: take good care of rescued pilgrims as they arrive but send them home at the earliest possible in the most comfortable manner . Don't worry about expenditure or numbers.

Smooth Operators

As always, officers on the ground have been empowered to take onthe-spot decisions, to decide how many buses or taxis they need, how many pilgrims need to be sent by air and what kind of aircraft to order. I saw senior IAS officers working 24x7 alongside very junior staff in one single room as a close-knit team.
When Modi landed in Dehradun, Team Gujarat was already in control . Far from attacking the state government , he offered all possible help.

Upset Congress

In addition, he synergised resources , energised BJP workers to get going, not just for immediate relief but also long-term reconstruction work. All his officers were provided phone numbers of BJP functionaries of all 190 blocks in Uttarakhand and vice versa. As usual, he worked to guide and streamline the operations . There was genuine spirit of cooperation and teamwork.

The Congress party is understandably upset because its chief minister has proved a disaster, its party machinery is in disarray, Congress Sewa Dal workers are nowhere in sight, Rahul Gandhi's Youth Brigade is clueless even in routine situations , leave alone know how to face a crisis like the Uttarakhand deluge.

That is the reality of the Uttarakhand relief operation led by Narendra Modi.

The writer is founder, Manushi, and professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Continuing Education - Part Time

Mr Narayana Murthy on values to emulate for Indians.

Western values are usually seen in India as not worthy of emulation. Narayana Murthy on values to emulate for Indians. 
Interesting speech rather than uniquely perceptive.
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Narayana Murthy on Western Values 

Ladies and gentlemen:

It is a pleasure to be here at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management. Lal Bahadur Shastri was a man of strong values and he epitomized simple living. He was a freedom fighter and Innovative administrator who contributed to nation building in full measure. It is indeed a matter of pride for me to be chosen for the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award for Public Administration and Management Sciences. I thank the jury for this honor.

When I got the invitation to speak here, I decided to speak on an important topic on which I have pondered for years - the role of Western values in contemporary Indian society. Coming from a company that is built on strong values, the topic is close to my heart. Moreover, an organization is representative of society, and some of the lessons that I have learnt are applicable in the national context. In fact, values drive progress and define quality of life in society.

The word community joins two Latin words com ("together" or "with") and onus ("one"). A community, then, is both one and many. It is a unified multitude and not a mere group of people. As it is said in the Vedas: Man can live individually, but can survive only collectively.Hence, the challenge is to form a progressive community by balancing the interests of the individual and that of the society. To meet this, we need to develop a value system where people accept modest sacrifices for the common good.

What is a value system? It is the protocol for behavior that enhances the trust, confidence and commitment of members of the community. It goes beyond the domain of legality - it is about decent and desirable behavior. Further, it includes putting the community interests ahead of your own. Thus, our collective survival and progress is predicated on sound values.

There are two pillars of the cultural value system - loyalty to family and loyalty to community. One should not be in isolation to the other, because, successful societies are those which combine both
harmoniously. It is in this context that I will discuss the role of Western values in contemporary Indian society.

Some of you here might say that most of what I am going to discuss are actually Indian values in old ages, and not Western values. I live in the present, not in the bygone era. Therefore, I have seen these values practiced primarily in the West and not in India. Hence, the title of the topic.

I am happy as long as we practice these values - whether we call it Western or old Indian values. As an Indian, I am proud to be part of a culture, which has deep-rooted family values. We have tremendous loyalty to the family. For instance, parents make enormous sacrifices for their children. They support them until they can stand on their own feet. On the other side, children consider it their duty to take care of aged parents.

We believe: Mathru devo bhava - mother is God, and pithru devo bhava - father is God. Further, brothers and sisters sacrifice for each other. In fact, the eldest brother or sister is respected by all the other siblings. As for marriage, it is held to be a sacred union – husband and wife are bonded, most often, for life. In joint families, the entire family works towards the welfare of the family. There is so much love and affection in our family life.


This is the essence of Indian values and one of our key strengths. Our families act as a critical support mechanism for us. In fact, the credit to the success of Infosys goes, as much to the founders as to
their families, for supporting them through the tough times. Unfortunately, our attitude towards family life is not reflected in our attitude towards community behavior. From littering the streets to
corruption to breaking of contractual obligations, we are apathetic to the common good. In the West - the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand - individuals understand that they have to be responsible towards their community.

The primary difference between the West and us is that, there, people have a much better societal orientation. They care more for the society than we do. Further, they generally sacrifice more for the
society than us. Quality of life is enhanced because of this. This is where we need to learn from the West. I will talk about some of the lessons that we, Indians, can learn from the West.

In the West, there is respect for the public good. For instance, parks free of litter, clean streets, public toilets free of graffiti – all these are instances of care for the public good. On the contrary, in
India, we keep our houses clean and water our gardens everyday - but, when we go to a park, we do not think twice before littering the place.

Corruption, as we see in India, is another example of putting the interest of oneself, and at best that of one's family, above that of the society. Society is relatively corruption free in the West. For
instance, it is very difficult to bribe a police officer into avoiding a speeding ticket.

This is because of the individual's responsible behavior towards the community as a whole On the contrary, in India, corruption, tax evasion, cheating and bribery have eaten into our vitals. For
instance, contractors bribe officials, and construct low-quality roads and bridges. The result is that society loses in the form of substandard defense equipment and infrastructure, and low-quality
recruitment, just to name a few impediments. Unfortunately, this behavior is condoned by almost everyone.
Apathy in solving community matters has held us back from making progress, which is otherwise within our reach. We see serious problems around us but do not try to solve them. We behave as if the problems do not exist or is somebody else's. On the other hand, in the West, people solve societal problems proactively. There are several examples of our apathetic attitude. For instance, all of us are aware of the problem of drought in India.

More than 40 years ago, Dr. K. L. Rao - an irrigation expert, suggested creation of a water grid connecting all the rivers in North and South India, to solve this problem. Unfortunately, nothing has
been done about this. The story of power shortage in Bangalore is another instance. In 1983, it was decided to build a thermal power plant to meet Bangalore's power requirements. Unfortunately, we have still not started it. Further, the Milan subway in Bombay is in a deplorable state for the last 40 years, and no action has been taken.

To quote another example, considering the constant travel required in the software industry; five years ago, I had suggested a 240-page passport. This would eliminate frequent visits to the passport office. In fact, we are ready to pay for it. However, I am yet to hear from the Ministry of External Affairs on this.

We, Indians, would do well to remember Thomas Hunter's words: Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes it. What could be the reason for all this? We were ruled by foreigners for over thousand years. Thus, we have always believed that public issues belonged to some foreign ruler and that we have no role in solving them.

Moreover, we have lost the will to proactively solve our own problems. Thus, we have got used to just executing someone else's orders. Borrowing Aristotle's words: We are what we repeatedly do. Thus, having done this over the years, the decision-makers in our society are not trained for solving problems. Our decision-makers look to somebody else to take decisions. Unfortunately, there is nobody to look up to, and this is the tragedy.

Our intellectual arrogance has also not helped our society. I have traveled extensively, and in my experience, have not come across another society where people are as contemptuous of better societies as we are, with as little progress as we have achieved. Remember that arrogance breeds hypocrisy. No other society gloats so much about the past as we do, with as little current accomplishment.

Friends, this is not a new phenomenon, but at least a thousand years old. For instance, Al Barouni, the famous Arabic logician and traveller of the 10th century, who spent about 30 years in India from 997 AD to around 1027 AD, referred to this trait of Indians. According to him,during his visit, most Indian pundits considered it below their dignity even to hold arguments with him. In fact, on a few occasions when a pundit was willing to listen to him, and found his arguments to be very sound, he invariably asked Barouni: which Indian pundit taught these smart things!

The most important attribute of a progressive society is respect for others who have accomplished more than they themselves have, and learn from them. Contrary to this, our leaders make us believe that other societies do not know anything! At the same time, everyday, in the newspapers, you will find numerous claims from our leaders that ours is the greatest nation. These people would do well to remember Thomas Carlyle's words: The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.

If we have to progress, we have to change this attitude, listen to people who have performed better than us, learn from them and perform better than them. Infosys is a good example of such an attitude. We continue to rationalize our failures. No other society has mastered
this part as well as we have. Obviously, this is an excuse to justify our incompetence, corruption, and apathy. This attitude has to change. As Sir Josiah Stamp has said: It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Another interesting attribute, which we Indians can learn from the West, is their accountability. Irrespective of your position, in the West, you are held accountable for what you do. However, in India, the more 'important' you are, the less answerable you are. For instance, a senior politician once declared that he 'forgot' to file his tax returns for 10 consecutive years - and he got away with it. To quote another instance, there are over 100 loss making public sector units (central) in India. Nevertheless, I have not seen action taken for bad performance against top managers in these organizations.

Dignity of labor is an integral part of the Western value system. In the West, each person is proud about his or her labor that raises honest sweat. On the other hand, in India, we tend to overlook the
significance of those who are not in professional jobs. We have a mind set that reveres only supposedly intellectual work.

For instance, I have seen many engineers, fresh from college, who only want to do cutting-edge work and not work that is of relevance to business and the country. However, be it an organization or society, there are different people performing different roles. For success, all these people are required to discharge their duties. This includes everyone from the CEO to the person who serves tea - every role is important. Hence, we need a mind set that reveres everyone who puts in
honest work.

Indians become intimate even without being friendly. They ask favors of strangers without any hesitation. For instance, the other day, while I was traveling from Bangalore to Mantralaya, I met a fellow traveler on the train. Hardly 5 minutes into the conversation, he requested me to speak to his MD about removing him from the bottom 10% list in his company, earmarked for disciplinary action. I was reminded of what Rudyard Kipling once said: A westerner can be friendly without
being intimate while an easterner tends to be intimate without being friendly.

Yet another lesson to be learnt from the West, is about their professionalism in dealings. The common good being more important than personal equations, people do not let personal relations interfere with their professional dealings. For instance, they don't hesitate to chastise a colleague, even if he is a personal friend, for incompetent work.

In India, I have seen that we tend to view even work interactions from a personal perspective. Further, we are the most 'thin-skinned' society in the world - we see insults where none is meant. This may be because we were not free for most of the last thousand years. Further,
we seem to extend this lack of professionalism to our sense of punctuality. We do not seem to respect the other person's time.

The Indian Standard Time somehow seems to be always running late. Moreover, deadlines are typically not met. How many public projects are completed on time? The disheartening aspect is that we have accepted this as the norm rather than the exception. In the West, they
show professionalism by embracing meritocracy. Meritocracy by definition means that we cannot let personal prejudices affect our evaluation of an individual's performance. As we increasingly start to
benchmark ourselves with global standards, we have to embrace meritocracy.

In the West, right from a very young age, parents teach their children to be independent in thinking. Thus, they grow up to be strong, confident individuals. In India, we still suffer from feudal thinking.
I have seen people, who are otherwise bright, refusing to show independence and preferring to be told what to do by their boss. We need to overcome this attitude if we have to succeed globally.

The Western value system teaches respect to contractual obligation. In the West, contractual obligations are seldom dishonored. This is important - enforceability of legal rights and contracts is the most important factor in the enhancement of credibility of our people and nation.
In India, we consider our marriage vows as sacred. We are willing to sacrifice in order to respect our marriage vows. However, we do not extend this to the public domain. For instance, India had an
unfavorable contract with Enron. Instead of punishing the people responsible for negotiating this, we reneged on the contract – this was much before we came to know about the illegal activities at Enron.

To quote another instance, I had given recommendations to several students for the national scholarship for higher studies in US universities. Most of them did not return to India even though
contractually they were obliged to spend five years after their degree in India.

In fact, according to a professor at a reputed US university, the maximum default rate for student loans is among Indians - all of these students pass out in flying colors and land lucrative jobs, yet they refuse to pay back their loans. Thus, their action has made it difficult for the students after them, from India, to obtain loans. We have to change this attitude.

Further, we Indians do not display intellectual honesty. For example, our political leaders use mobile phones to tell journalists on the other side that they do not believe in technology! If we want our
youngsters to progress, such hypocrisy must be stopped. We are all aware of our rights as citizens. Nevertheless, we often fail to acknowledge the duty that accompanies every right. To borrow Dwight Eisenhower's words: People that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Our duty is towards the community as a whole, as much as it is towards our families.

We have to remember that fundamental social problems grow out of a lack of commitment to the common good. To quote Henry Beecher: Culture is that which helps us to work for the betterment of all. Hence, friends, I do believe that we can make our society even better by assimilating these Western values into our own culture - we will be stronger for it.

Most of our behavior comes from greed, lack of self-confidence, lack of confidence in the nation, and lack of respect for the society. To borrow Gandhi's words: There is enough in this world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. Let us work towards a society where we would do unto others what we would have others do unto us. Let us all be responsible citizens who make our country a great place to live. 

In the words of Churchill: Responsibility is the price of greatness. We have to extend our family values beyond the boundaries of our home.

Finally, let us work towards maximum welfare of the maximum people - Samasta janaanaam sukhino bhavantu. Thus, let us - people of this generation, conduct ourselves as great citizens rather than just good people so that we can serve as good examples for our younger generation.
   

An inspired Soul - Mr Thiagarajan (Tiger) serving SEVA MELA

Top IT Service Providers by Revenue

Top IT service providers by revenue

1. Short for International Business Machines, IBM comes under the global category with a revenue of $99.9 billion. It is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, and manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology

2. Accenture, another company under the global category has a revenue of $27.4 billion. It is a multinational management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company and is the world’s largest consulting firm by revenue. Accenture also sponsors an international event called the Accenture Match Play Championship (seen in picture), part of the World Golf Championships, every year since 1999.

3. Another American multinational company, Computer Services Corporation or CSC comes under the global category with a revenue of $16 billion. The company also licenses software systems for financial services, healthcare and other industry-specific markets and provides end-to-end business solutions that meet the needs of large commercial and government clients.

Photo: Courtesy of CSC website

4. The top four is rounded off by Capgemini which again falls under the global category with a revenue of $11.6 billion. A French multinational corporation, it is of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions. The company also recently opened a 300 seat BPO centre in Tamil Nadu.

5. CGI is the first company under the < b>regional category to be listed. It was founded in 1976 by 26-year-old entrepreneurs Serge Godin and André Imbeau. The two started the company in the basement of Serge’s home with one client and one phone. Today, the company is one of the largest IT services providers in the world operating in more than 40 countries, with a revenue of $11.6 billion.

6. First Data Corporation, which falls under the global category is a global payment processing company. First Data is a provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions. The company's STAR Network offers PIN-secured debit acceptance at ATM and retail locations. It has a revenue of $10.4 billion.

7. Tata Consultancy Services is the first Indian company to feature in this list and is therefore under the offshore category with a revenue of $8.4 billion. It is one of India's most valuable companies and is the largest India-based IT services company by 2012 revenues.

8. Hitachi comes under the regional category with a revenue of $8 billion. It is a Japanese multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate company headquartered in Tokyo. It is the parent of the Hitachi Group and forms part of the DKB Group of companies.

9. Another company from the offshore category and with a revenue of $7 billion, Wipro operates in four segments: IT products and services, consumer care and lighting, healthcare and infrastructure engineering. Its revenue is $7 billion and its chairman, Azim Premji was listed as one of the top tech billionaires in the world.

10. Rounding up the top ten is Atos, another multinational from France that comes under the regional category with revenue of $6.7 billion. The company was formed in 1997 through a merger of two French IT companies; and combined with the Dutch-based company Origin B.V. in 2000, becoming Atos Origin. After finalizing the acquisition of Siemens IT Solutions and Services last year, it consequently reverted the company name back to Atos.

11. There are three more Indian companies that feature in the list. Here’s a look at them. At number 11 is Infosys with a revenue of $6.2 billion. Infosys was co-founded in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora after they resigned from Patni Computer Systems. The company also recently featured in theForbes list of the world’s most innovative companies .

12. Cognizant comes in at number 13 with a revenue of $4.6 billion.It provides information technology, consulting and BPO services. Cognizant is among the Top 10 companies receiving H-1B visas to bring highly skilled immigrant workers to the United States and the company has been steadily increasing its U.S. work force.

13. At 17 is HCL is the last Indian company on the list with a revenue of $3.5 billion. HCL was focused on addressing the IT hardware market in India for the first two decades of its existence with some activity in the global market. The company comprises two publicly listed companies, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems.

Courtesy : Top IT service providers by revenue  - Yahoo

1 Crore Plantation - A great Inspiration !

Pay Electricity Charges Using Mobile Phone !

Job Opportunities for Engineering Students !

Need to put good effort from the beginning !

Surajya Movement in Andhra Pradesh

Mr John Hemanth Kumar - Sports Psychology Center in Hyderabad !

The Hindu » NATIONAL » ANDHRA PRADESH

HYDERABAD, August 10, 2012 

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article3748559.ece 

Sports psychology centre to come up in Hyderabad

V.V. Subrahmanyam

For someone who played his part in the Indian Army shooter, Vijay Kumar, winning a silver medal in the London Olympics, Gadam John Hemanth Kumar of Hyderabad has decided to set up what will be certainly the first full-fledged sports psychology centre (by an individual) in the city.

“There is a big need for this and I will set it up in such a way that there will be no specific timings. It should be functional by Children’s Day this year. Anyone interested can just walk in at his or her convenience instead of me fixing visiting hours,” says the 51-year-old Hemanth Kumar, who spent two months with Vijay Kumar in 2008 and taught him the art of being focussed as part of the sports psychology programme. Interestingly, this gentleman kept a low profile till Vijay Kumar actually won a silver and started opening up only now to give an insight into his programmes aimed at sporting excellence. “Any champion needs a bit of sports psychology,” Hemanth insists.

“Yes, any human being can be weighed down by the huge expectations or the prospects of winning or the fear of losing. To stay focussed, you need different kind of training unlike the regular sport-related regimen,” he explains at his residence in the by-lanes of Yousufguda here. “Essentially, we also emphasise on different forms of meditation for different sportspersons. I am happy that the Vipassana meditation worked well with shooter Vijay Kumar,” says the former student of Nizam College and consultant psychologist to Navodaya Schools in South. For this double post-graduate from Tamil Nadu University of Sports, the stint with Vijay Kumar was apparently one of his high-points. “In fact, the ambience at the Army Marksmanship Unit in Mhow is unique as it happens to be the only second such unit in the world besides the one in the United States,” Hemanth Kumar points out.

For Students - Reforming evaluation method to test their intellect !

Reforming evaluation method to test their intellect !

Proposal of open-book examination system in Standards X and XII in Central Board of Secondary Examination Schools by the Ministry of Human Resource Development recently.Though the committee to reform school examination headed by CBSE Chairman Vineet Joshi is yet to finalise the proposal being planned to be implemented in 2013, many aspects of it had met with mixed response from educationists. Though termed as open-book examination, according to the committee, the students would not be allowed to carry books to the exam hall instead would be informed of the portions based on which analytical and application-oriented questions would be asked. 

Read full details at http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3669361.ece

10 Programming Languages That Can Redefine IT

10 Programming Languages That Can Redefine IT

1. Go
2. Dart
3. Ceylon
4. F#
5. Opa
6. Fantom
7. Zimbu
8. X10
9. haXe
10. Chapel

Courtesy : Silicon India

Mr John Hemanth Kumar, Psychologist - Helped Mr Vijay Kumar winning a Silver Medal in Olympics !

Stop Mugging Up in the Studies - Grading System Helps !

ACO ..Helping ..To Alleviate Poverty

What India Can Learn From China's Health System?

Bangalore: China is experiencing a gigantic disease burden transition, with an extraordinary social and environmental change, reported the medical journal Lancet. The transition will not only affect the country's future but also shape the pattern of global health. Lancet wishes to act as a bridge in order to have a scientific exchange between the rapidly expanding arena of medical science in China and the rest of the world.

China's health services used to be described as too difficult to access, too expensive, and extremely variable in quality. But shockingly China has accomplished near universal coverage in a very short time. As per data from Chinese National Health Services Survey, the medical insurance coverage in China has increased from 29·7 percent in 2003, to 95·7 percent in 2011. But, the increased insurance coverage has not yet been effective in reducing patients' financial risks. Iin India, the number is very low and the health insurance market is very limited, covering only about 10 percent of the total population. It is seen that in India the total health expenditure is around 5 percent of GDP.

As a nation whose culture and society have long been formed by its farming traditions, China has just passed a landmark, with its urban population of more than 680 million people outnumbering its rural residents for the first time in January, 2012. This serves as a double-edged sword for public health in China as it not only offers great opportunities in the improvements of health-care access and basic health infrastructure, but also poses substantial risks, including changing diets and lifestyle, air and water pollution, and occupational and traffic hazards.

Growing urbanization is one of the socioeconomic risks for non-communicable disease (NCDs), which has already become China's number one health threat. Chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are often closely associated, sharing common risk factors and treatments, and hence they would benefit from a coordinated approach to prevention and control.

Whereas, as per leading public health experts concerted and coordinated efforts are necessary to address the growing social and economic burden of chronic, non-communicable disease in India. NCDs are the main cause of morbidity and mortality and are responsible for more than 63 percent of deaths in the world and make up more than two thirds of the total disease burden in India.

Also, knowledge exchange is not a one-way street. While China is learning from other countries in health-care delivery and research, it has much to share for reciprocal benefit. It is important that health-care reform is not exclusive to one country. The improvement of universal coverage, reduction in costs, and to deal with the mounting challenge of NCDs are truly global problems. China's health-reform process and solutions will provide evidence to inform debate and, ultimately, enhance global health-care outcomes

It is noted that reform of public hospitals is essential to control health expenditure because such institutes deliver more than 90 percent of the country's health services. There are pilot programmes for public hospital reforms in China.

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First time Managers - Dos and Donts !

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