Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya The Information Technology (IT) policy got extension till March. We will listen to the suggestions of top businessmen of IT sector. The meeting regarding this will be held in January 2015 wherein the representatives of the companies like TATA, TCS, Infosys, HCL will participate, informed Maharashtra’s Industry Minister Subhash Desai. Desai was speaking to The Hitavada. “We are trying to incorporate gaming, graphics, animation. If we could be able to concentrate on IT and set up the hubs, it will create more number of jobs. Already Government is planning to make investment of Rs 5 lakh crore. It will generate 20 lakh jobs and with it, State Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be 28% ,” pointed Desai. “To make atmosphere encouraging for industries we have to remove problems of license. In our state we have over 70 types of licenses which makes it difficult for industrialists to run their units. We will be reducing it to 25. Secondly, people complains that for every sm...

                                                                   Vascular Age Calculator By Vikas Vaidya In India it is estimated that over 220 million people have been diagnosed with one or more forms of Cardiovascular disease (CVD). But 2025 this number is expected to nearly double. CVD is one of the leading causes of death in India. In 2005, 29% of the deaths in India were due to CVD. Can we avoid this or can we know earlier how much damages have been occurred internally so that we could avoid it or take precautions to avoid further damages. Such system has come through which we can know our Cardiovascular age. If suppose your age is 40 years, your ca...

  By Vikas Vaidya MAHARASHTRA’S Higher, Technical, Medical Education Minister Vinod Tawde has clarified that the State would not participate in National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET). With confusion reigning supreme over conducting NEET for admission to MBBS, Tawde’s statement has allowed parents to breathe easy. After discussions on education held in the House for last two days, Tawde presented a road map. He said that a student is backbone of education but unfortunately the present day education is not student-centric and stressed that he wanted to give due importance to students. “There was a lot of confusion on NEET. The litigations were filed in the Supreme Court. We do not want to involve ourselves into these disputes but Maharashtra Government has decided not to participate in NEET,” Tawde said. Medical Council of India had first talked on NEET in the year 2011. Then the confusion went on how the NEET to be introduced. NEET came into being because of Supreme Court’...