Happy Life - blogs Bumba: August 2020

National Health ID

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of a national health ID for every Indian while addressing the nation on the occasion of 74th Independence Day.

It was already been planned by "Niti Aayog" proposal to create a centralized mechanism on year 2018 to identify every participating user in the National Health stack.

Media/News Channel :

Some local media/newspaper has been published the matter in their portal.Some sample copy mentioned in below-

Firstpost,Dated 17th August,2020

The Hindu,Dated 15th August,2020

The Indian Express ,Dated 22nd August,2020

According to the National Health Authority (NHA), every patient who wishes to have their health records available digitally must start by creating a Health ID.

What is the benefits or purpose of National Health ID :

Through the government's One Nation one health card scheme, everyone has to get a health card made. The complete information about the treatment and test that results from this will be digitally saved in this card.

Record of this information will be kept.Its biggest advantage will be that when you go to any hospital or doctor in the country for treatment, you will not have to take all the prescription and test reports together. The doctor will be able to sit from anywhere and see all the medical records through your unique ID.

How National Health ID will work ?

The Health ID is created by using a person’s basic details and mobile number or Aadhaar number. This will make it unique to the person,who will have the option to link all of their health records to this ID.This ID probably have 14 digit no,will be generated for everyone.

Hospitals,clinics,doctors will be linked to a central server to keep medical data of the person. For the hospital and the citizens, it will now depend on their will whether they want to join this mission or not. A unique unique ID will be issued for every citizen. Login will be done on the same basis. The National Digital Health Mission mainly focuses on four things-Health ID, personal health records, registration of Digi doctors and health facilities across the country.

Government Funding ?

According to the report, this scheme will be started first in select union territory of the country,such as Andaman,Nicobar,Poduchery,Ladakh etc. and after that it will be implemented in different phases in the country.

For this, the Finance Ministry has also approved Rs 470 crore (Approx.) In this scheme, the privacy of the data of the health ID holders will be fully taken care of. No one else will get their information without their consent. People can also add this unique Health ID to the Aadhaar card, for this the option will remain open.

Conclusion:

It is envisaged that various healthcare providers,such as hospitals, laboratories, insurance companies, online pharmacies, telemedicine firms will be expected to participate in the health ID system.

It is not mandatory,whether you can avail or not,entirely up to your decision.But as per as my suggestion we have to avail it through this new unique system.We should always welcome good things.

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:Chennai Andaman & Nicobar Submarine Optical fiber Cable:

PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate 2300-km undersea cable project to boost connectivity to Andaman & Nicobar Islands on August 10,2020.

This is the much-awaited ₹1,224-crore Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar undersea Internet cable,the submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC), was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on last Monday.

The PM of India will launch and dedicate to the nation the project which will boost connectivity to Andaman & Nicobar through video conferencing.Please find picture 1, show overall map indicating routing from Chennai to Andaman-

Picture 1: Tentative route from Chennai to Andaman & Nicobar

The submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) will also connect Port Blair to Swaraj Dweep (Havelock),Little Andaman,Car Nicobar,Kamorta, Great Nicobar, Long Island and Rangat.

Media/ Channel/Newspaper:

Some local media/newspaper has been published the matter in their portal.Some sample copy mentioned in below-

Picture 2: ZEE news

Picture 3: The Hindu

Picture 4: The Hindustan Times

Salient Points:

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands,a Union territory of India comprising 572 islands of which 37 are inhabited.

The territory’s capital city name is "Port Blair".

Cable system will have 400 Gigabit per second.Once inaugurated,the submarine OFC (Optical Fibre cable) link will deliver bandwidth of 2 x 200 Gigabits per second (Gbps) between Chennai and Port Blair and 2 x 100 Gbps between Port Blair and the other islands.

The eight islands to be connected with Chennai,include port blair,little Andaman,Kamota,Great Nicobar,Havlock,Long & Rangat islands.

The Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone of this project on December 30, 2018, at Port Blair.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) executed this project while Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) is the Technical Consultants under department of telecommunications of India.

The Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone of this project on December 30, 2018, at Port Blair and completed within its schedule timeline.
Indian government also plan to develop transshipment port at great Nicobar island at approx cost around 10000 cr. rupees. Obviously it will generate revenue in future for Indian Government.

This is huge news for Andaman residents as their broadband speed will go up 10 times faster now. Please find below picture 5 & 6 shows difference between 4G vs 5G.

Picture 5: 4G vs 5G

Picture 6

What is Optical Fibre cable (OFC):

Fiber optic cables have transformed telecommunications and connectivity.A fiber-optic cable is designed to protect the inside fiber core that carries the transmission of a light signal.Please find below picture 7 for indicate detail construction of OFC.

Picture 7: Optical Fibre Cable

Benefits of Project:

After the lunch of this project, the internet bills in Andaman and Nicobar will also come down substantially.

Boost mobile services in island.

Facilitate digital education and digital health.

promote tourism & tourist services.

Will strengthen Indian's defense and security.

Universal Service Obligation Fund:

Now you think from where does money will come from? This project cost funding generated from universal service levy (USL).

Funds come from the Universal Service Levy (USL) of 5% charged from all the telecom operators like Vodafone,Airtel,Jio on their Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) which are then deposited into the Consolidated Fund of India.