Saturday Interview | ‘Care needed to curb virus’
The Union Government appointed Dr Paul as a Member of NITI Aayog in August 2017.
The Union Government appointed Dr Paul as a Member of NITI Aayog in August 2017.
Vivek Chattopadhyaya, associated with the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, is an expert on clean air and sustainable mobility management.
He had started his remarkable political journey from student politics in 1970 as a member of the RSS’ students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
I started studying patients as they fell sick and as they recovered. With further reading, I found I needed to do sub-specialisation on stereotactic and functional neurosurgery to deal with people with Parkinson’s disease, with tremor in hands, spastics, pain and psychiatric epilepsy.
A rising star in the HP Congress, Agnihotri is now leading the party in the HP Assembly as Leader of the Opposition.
Besides heading the Food Corporation of India, he had been secretary in the union Food Processing as well as the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare ministries.
A post-graduate from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, he joined Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984.
He has worked for electoral reforms through the judicial system by filing Public Interest Litigations in the higher judiciary to get relevant laws improved, and on the ground by providing information to voters about the background of candidates contesting elections so that they can make informed choices while voting.
He was a physics teacher in Kolkata’s Ashutosh College from 1974 to 2007.
Dr Talwar spoke at length about the Covid surge in Punjab, one of the worst coronavirus affected states in the country, and steps being taken to curb its deadly spread.
