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Item Water Security in India: Exploring the Challenges and Prospects(Springer Nature, 2022-04-01T00:00:00) Kaur, Sandeep; Gauttam, PriyaWater security has become a concern for all countries around the world. All human beings are highly dependent on water to carry out their life sustaining activities that involve drinking water, food production, economic development sanitation, etc. Therefore, water security from the household to the global level, ensures that every citizen has access to enough safe water at reasonable costs to lead a clean, healthy, and productive life while ensuring that the natural environment is preserved and enhanced. Although water is a renewable resource, it has become a scarce resource of the world due to excessive consumption. Water security is more difficult to achieve for countries with large populations. India is one of them and has more than 18% of the world�s population, but it only has 4% of world�s renewable water. Along with India's economic growth, water-dependent industry, agriculture, metropolitan areas, and population are rapidly expanding. Water contamination, shortage, groundwater depletion, unequal distribution, and unavailability are existing issues in India. To address these issues, the Indian government has developed a national water policy. A water policy must recognize and handle present and future water resource concerns. Sustainable water use is essential for India's water supply and economic development. � The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.Item COVID-19 and Global Distributive Justice: �Health Diplomacy� of India and South Africa for the TRIPS waiver(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2022-01-19T00:00:00) Singh, Bawa; Chattu, Vijay Kumar; Kaur, Jaspal; Mol, Rajni; Gauttam, Priya; Singh, BalinderThe second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic had left heart-wrenching impacts on all facets of life in general and the availability, accessibility, and affordability of medicines and vaccines in particular. Rather, the world has been divided into two groups regarding access to medicine and vaccines as haves and have-nots. The rich countries had pre-ordered the vaccines of COVID-19 along with the holding of the same. The pandemic situation was further worsened, given the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in practice and restrictions on sharing technology of vaccines, medicines, and life-saving equipment. In this context, India and South Africa have proposed the joint proposal and garnered support for waiving off TRIPS to ensure equity, accessibility, and affordability of vaccines and the same as public goods. In this review, we emphasize that global justice is one of the important elements of normative international theories, which focus on all the moral obligations from the world�s rich to the world�s poor. The paper also questions and argues that if the rich countries fail to go by the principles of global justice, can the Indian and South African (SA) patent diplomacy play a catalyst role in global justice? The review concludes with an emphasis on global solidarity, and the acceptance of joint India�South Africa�s �patent diplomacy� for TRIPS waiver would result in mass production and fair distribution, making the COVID-19 medicines and technologies available to everyone regardless of their poor�rich status. � The Author(s) 2022.Item Higher education as a bridge between china and nepal: Mapping education as soft power in chinese foreign policy(MDPI AG, 2021-07-15T00:00:00) Gauttam, Priya; Singh, Bawa; Chattu, Vijay KumarIn this globalized world, education has become an important medium to enhance people-to-people contact. The Delores report of the International Commission on Education for the 21st century highlights the enormous potential of higher education to use globalization as a resource for bridging the knowledge gap and enriching cross-cultural dialogue. As a major contributor to soft power and an important field of public diplomacy, international education can have a wealth of advantages, including the ability to generate commercial value, promote a country�s foreign policy goals and interests, and contribute to economic growth and investment. The People�s Republic of China, well-known for being the world�s most populous nation and the global economic powerhouse, prioritizes the internationalization of the country�s higher education system. China is looking to expand its higher education program and carry out its diplomatic project in South Asia. In this sense, the South Asian zone, especially Nepal, is significant for China, where its educational diplomacy is playing as a �bridge between Sino-Nepal relations.� In this review, we describe the place and priority of �Education� in China�s foreign policy; explore China�s mediums of investment in Nepal�s education sector; and highlight the importance of educational aid in Sino-Nepal relations. Chinese educational aid to Nepal takes many forms, where Nepali students and officials engage with Chinese investment to enhance their career prospects and the education system in Nepal. � 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Item Public health policy of India and COVID-19: Diagnosis and prognosis of the combating response(MDPI AG, 2021-03-22T00:00:00) Gauttam, Priya; Patel, Nitesh; Singh, Bawa; Kaur, Jaspal; Chattu, Vijay Kumar; Jakovljevic, Mihajlo(1) Background: Society and public policy have been remained interwoven since the inception of the modern state. Public health policy has been one of the important elements of the public administration of the Government of India (GOI). In order to universalize healthcare facilities for all, the GOI has formulated and implemented the national health policy (NHP). The latest NHP (2017) has been focused on the �Health in All� approach. On the other hand, the ongoing pandemic COVID-19 had left critical impacts on India�s health, healthcare system, and human security. The paper�s main focus is to critically examine the existing healthcare facilities and the GOI�s response to combat the COVID-19 apropos the NHP 2017. The paper suggests policy options that can be adopted to prevent the further expansion of the pandemic and prepare the country for future health emergency-like situations. (2) Methods: Extensive literature search was done in various databases, such as Scopus, Web of Science, Medline/PubMed, and google scholar search engines to gather relevant information in the Indian context. (3) Results: Notwithstanding the several combatting steps on a war-footing level, COVID-19 has placed an extra burden over the already overstretched healthcare infrastructure. Consequently, infected cases and deaths have been growing exponentially, making India stand in second place among the top ten COVID-19-infected countries. (4) Conclusions: India needs to expand the public healthcare system and enhance the expenditure as per the set goals in NHP-17 and WHO standards. The private healthcare system has not been proved reliable during the emergency. Only the public health system is suitable for the country wherein the population�s substantial size is rural and poor. � 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.