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MOE plans intervention to boost number of school counsellors
MOE plans intervention to boost number of school counsellors

New Straits Times

time6 days ago

  • Health
  • New Straits Times

MOE plans intervention to boost number of school counsellors

KUALA LUMPUR: The number of counselling teachers currently placed in government primary and secondary schools remains insufficient to cater to the growing student population, said Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek. She said the ministry needed to introduce policy interventions to increase the number of school counsellor positions. "This is a significant commitment that involves not just policy change but also staffing allocations and other administrative considerations," she told reporters after appearing on the Malaysia Hari Ini (MHI) programme at Balai Berita yesterday. Fadhlina said strengthening the psychosocial well-being of students was just as important as maintaining the safety of the physical school environment. She said the ministry was focused on enhancing both the number and training of counselling teachers in primary and secondary schools to support a healthy school ecosystem. "The current number of counsellors is still insufficient. "As I mentioned earlier, the ministry must commit to addressing this issue seriously because it is not a trivial matter and requires collective commitment. "We must prioritise the addition of school counsellors. "At the same time, training must be enhanced so they are better equipped to manage students' issues, particularly depression, an area also supported by the Health Ministry and specific developments in Malaysia's counselling sector." She was commenting on a recent revelation by State Public Health and Environment Committee chairman Jamaliah Jamaluddin, who raised concerns over depression among secondary school students in the state. According to media reports, Jamaliah told the Selangor State Legislative Assembly on July 7 that data from the 2024/2025 Healthy Mind Screening Analysis showed that 1,020 out of 36,428 secondary students in Selangor (2.8 per cent) exhibited early signs of high-risk depression. In response, Fadhlina called for shared responsibility and collective action from stakeholders, including parents, the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), community counsellors and the general public. "We treat every case with utmost seriousness. "We do not deny that such issues are affecting our students, but what we need now is a united commitment. This issue must be tackled together," she said. Fadhlina said the ministry had implemented various programmes involving screenings and assessments by school counsellors to detect symptoms of depression among students. She said students who required further support would be referred to psychologists. However, she said, family involvement remained one of the most crucial forms of early and continuous intervention. "Mental health support programmes in schools are extremely important. "We work closely with the Health Ministry to ensure these initiatives have a meaningful impact in strengthening the psychosocial ecosystem for students. "At the same time, I urge families to provide strong support. "That means parental involvement plays a key role in helping children recover, in addition to the interventions we offer. "If there are any warning signs, we urge parents to be vigilant and inform the school so that we can activate the support system as early as possible," she said. Among those present were Media Prima Bhd Group chairman Datuk Seri Dr Syed Hussian Aljunid, Group managing director Rafiq Razali, Group chief financial officer Rosli Sabarudin, Omnia chief operating officer Datuk Mohd Efendi Omar, and Media Prima Television Network and Primeworks Studios chief executive officer Nini Yusof.

EV maker Ola opposes auto firms' plea to reduce duty on traction motors
EV maker Ola opposes auto firms' plea to reduce duty on traction motors

Business Standard

time23-07-2025

  • Automotive
  • Business Standard

EV maker Ola opposes auto firms' plea to reduce duty on traction motors

Electric two-wheeler maker Ola Electric has struck a divergent note with the auto industry, which has appealed to the government to cut the basic Customs duty (BCD) on traction motors by half due to the ongoing export restrictions placed by China on standalone magnets. While the industry has asked the ministry of heavy industries (MHI) to reduce the basic customs duty on traction motors to 7.5 per cent from the current 15 per cent, Ola has opposed the move saying that 'there is no global supply chain crises in electric magnets in the auto sector'. The Bengaluru-based firm has reasoned that it was not in favour of any reduction in duty as this would have an adverse impact on those companies which are making the motors in India, and only importing the rare earth motors (like them). The industry, represented by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam), has however, said that they have made the request because due to the restrictions on import of standalone magnets (which had a duty of 7.5 per cent) from China, full assembly and sub-assemblies will have to be imported at 15 per cent which would lead to the increase in the cost of the vehicle. The company has argued that it has procured stocks of rare earth magnets from alternative non-Chinese sources in South East Asia and Europe and also plans to introduce 'ferrite motor' powered vehicles by Q3 of 2026, which are as efficient as rare earth powered motors. So they have already worked out an alternate plan of action. In its communication with the MHI, the industry has also sought exemption for traction and wheel rim hub mounted motors which were to be manufactured in the country under the phased manufacturing program for eligibility in the PM e-drive subsidy scheme. That apart, they have also asked for exemption from another condition to get subsidy, that import of PMP components and all other components for electric-2 and 3 wheelers from a single supplier should not be permitted. In the case of PLI, it has requested that additional import costs in sourcing motor assemblies, sub-assemblies, components and electronic throttle will be exempted from the computation of domestic value addition and the import content declared in the techno commercial audit issued before the restrictions by China was imposed will be calculated for DVA has also made it clear that they are not in favour of any change in the domestic value addition norms of PLI as well as the phased manufacturing program as requested by many auto companies. The industry has also pointed out to MHI that while they are committed to the 'Make in India' vision, under the prevailing scenario there is need for the government to provide them with some flexibility to ensure the momentum of growth in EV penetration.

Childbirth is still too dangerous. This ancient profession can help.
Childbirth is still too dangerous. This ancient profession can help.

National Geographic

time23-07-2025

  • Health
  • National Geographic

Childbirth is still too dangerous. This ancient profession can help.

Midwives are making a big comeback, and solving a crisis in maternal health care. A midwife holds a newborn in Tzajalchén, Mexico, 2021. Photograph by Janet Jarman, Nat Geo Image Collection It's 5 a.m. at ​​Mother Health International (MHI), a birth center in Northern Uganda​ affiliated with Yale University​, when the call comes in from a local midwife about 12 miles away. A woman in her village has gone into labor. The alert sets a series of gears into motion: a motorcycle driver is immediately dispatched to zip down the mostly unpaved roads to her location, while the nurse midwives at MHI prepare a room for labor and delivery. Within an hour, the laboring mother and her local midwife arrive at MHI where she's greeted by nurse midwives who work together to ensure a safe delivery. An ambulance stands ready in case the birth becomes difficult, but it isn't needed. Soon, the room celebrates: a new baby is welcomed into the world and placed onto her mother's chest. Midwife ​Rachel Zaslow,​​ the executive director of MHI​, has been in this situation many times.​​ During her nearly 20 years at the center, Zaslow has seen the near-miraculous transformation in care for Uganda's pregnant women. When she arrived in 2006, up to 30 women might deliver babies daily in a worn-torn hospital with a single midwife.​​ Now, MHI's highly effective model, called the Framework for Quality Maternal and Newborn Care, facilitates collaboration between traditional midwives in local communities and certified nurse midwives. The results are impressive. Healthy and safe births are commonplace at MHI, which has assisted with over 20,000 births since 2007. Zaslow says they have never lost a mother. That, she adds, is 'extremely rare' in East Africa, and the rest of the world. Since implementing their model, the maternal mortality rate has dropped significantly, representing over 60 maternal lives saved. A traveling midwife in Afghanistan listens for a fetal heartbeat. Photograph by Lynsey Addario, Nat Geo Image Collection Could the United States, which has a maternal mortality rate much higher than other wealthy nations, benefit from MHI's midwife-centric approach to maternal care? Research suggests that it could. In the U.S. the overall maternal mortality rate is 18.6 per 100,000 live births; for Black women, the figure is even higher at 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, worse than MHI's numbers, a statistic Zaslow describes as 'alarming.' Plus, in the U.S., the maternal mortality rate has been climbing—it's already the highest among high-income countries—and experts anticipate that rate to rise for a variety of reasons, including patchwork maternal care that fails many, as well as medical discrimination that disproportionally impacts Black, Native American, Hawaii and Pacific Islanders. According to a recent article in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, ​​midwife care ​​(which includes ​​prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum care in settings such as hospitals and birth centers) ​​​​​​can lower mortality rates as well as lead to fewer preterm births and low birthweight infants as well as reduced interventions, like C-sections, in labor. The ​​​authors​​ note that ​​although ​​midwifery is growing, midwives attended just 10 percent of ​births in the U.S. in 2020. ​​​​And in low- and middle-income countries, 82 percent of maternal deaths could be prevented by scaling up midwifery care, ​​according​ to an estimation tool developed by the Institute for International Programs at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. ​More ​​recently, a 2025 ​​systematic review​​ in ​​BMC​​ ​found that midwifery significantly improves maternal and newborn health in low- and middle-income countries while also lowering newborn mortality and morbidity. ​​​In late 2024, the World Health Organization ​published a position paper that echoed the benefits of a midwifery model of care, noting that it leads to more equitable outcomes and ​​​​declining numbers of maternal mortality. Given the evidence, it's no surprise that more women are turning to midwifery, looking for solutions to the country's fractured maternal healthcare system. 'I think patients have read a lot about the gaps in the U.S. maternal health model and they're looking for better experiences and more modern versions,' says Anu Sharma, founder of maternal health start-up, Millie. As a result, one of the oldest forms of person-to-person medical care is experiencing a renaissance—and the ​​field is ​​​expected to grow​ significantly over the next decade. 'We're bringing ancient wisdom back into the modern era,' Sharma says. This is a revolution of what was once the norm: person-to-person care that treats childbirth as routine while leveraging medical advancements and technology as needed. Midwifery is an ancient profession and texts written by midwives date to the Renaissance. This relief showing a woman delivering a baby is on the tomb of Scribonia Attica, a Second Century Roman midwife. Photograph by James L. Stanfield, Nat Geo Image Collection Midwives train in Darfur, Sudan, 2010. Studies have shown that midwifery significantly improves maternal and newborn health while also lowering newborn mortality and morbidity. Photograph by Raul Touzon, Nat Geo Image Collection The long history of midwives Midwifery is by no means new; the system of women caring for women is mentioned in ancient texts and books authored by midwives' date to the Renaissance. In early America, Black midwives who survived the Middle Passage brought their skills with them, practicing midwifery while enslaved. Known as granny midwives, these women delivered the infants of fellow enslaved women as well as the wives of their white owners. But midwifery practically disappeared in the United States at the close of the 19th Century as hospital births became the norm. ​​​​​Though the transition from home to the hospital was made in the name of safety, it dramatically increased maternal mortality rates. That was 'due to poor practitioner training, excessive interventions, and the failure to implement aseptic techniques​​, says ​​​Carol Sakala​​, who leads maternal health and maternity care programming at the National Partnership for Women & Families, a ​non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization. Maternal mortality rates, however, declined after 1920, due in part to public health advances and the development and use of antibiotics and aseptic clinical standards from the late 1930s as well as access to maternity care and safe and legal abortion. 'In the 20th Century, hospitals and doctors rose to the fore, gained a lot of power and control and systematically denigrated and displaced long standing birthing traditions, including midwifery care,' says Sakala, adding that there were campaigns to eliminate Black granny midwives and immigrant midwives along with their knowledge and cultural practices. ​According to ​Keisha L. Goode, PhD, Assistant Professor, Sociology at SUNY Old Westbury, anti-Black racism is 'deeply intertwined with the story of midwifery.' 'The field of medicine essentially destroyed midwifery and took it out of the hands of women [and] significantly medicalized it,' says Dana R. Gossett, an OB-GYN and chair of the obstetrics and gynecology department at NYU Langone Health. ​​​​​As a result, traditional methods of labor and delivery were replaced with medicalized intervention, both for the better and worse. While they are now considered emergency procedures, in the 60s and 70s it used to be common for doctors to perform episiotomies (i.e. surgical cuts between the vagina and anus) under anesthesia, and to pull infants out forcibly with forceps. Each resulted in enduring complications. Forceps can cause severe perineal tearing or injury to the newborn while episiotomies leave new mothers with severe pain and longer recovery times. Women eventually resisted these practices. Gossett points to the mainstreaming of Lamaze in the 60s as one of the earlier notable pushbacks against hyper-medicalized births. 'Lamaze is a specific form of childbirth preparation that uses breathwork and focus to manage the pain of contractions,' Gossett says. Women, she says, were 'attempting to take back control of the birthing process from male physicians.' By midcentury, midwives started to resurge. '[When] I was born […], my mother took Lamaze classes and had a natural childbirth,' Gossett says. Ina May Gaskin, often referred to as the 'mother of midwifery' founded The Farm, a Tennessee community focused on providing midwife care and training future generations, after a traumatic birth where a physician used forceps, in 1971. Shortly after, she published Spiritual Midwifery, a landmark book that advocated for home births and breastfeeding. In the next few decades, Gossett says that ​​​​out-of-hospital births and the percentage of women using midwives ​​​​began to increase. A midwife assess the size and weight of a newborn in New Mexico. Midwife care can lower mortality rates as well as lead to fewer preterm births and low birthweight infants as well as reduced interventions, like C-sections, in labor Photograph by Lynsey Addario, Nat Geo Image Collection (Top) (Left) and Photograph by Lynsey Addario, Nat Geo Image Collection (Bottom) (Right) Solutions for a 'broken model of care' In December 2019, Jillian Perez was lying in a medical gown on the table in her OB-GYN's office for her first prenatal visit. ​​She ​felt ​'like a number,' she remembers, as though her pregnancy was a problem to solve, rather than a natural process. 'It just didn't jive with how I wanted my pregnancy to be treated and to go,' Perez says. 'I want to be talking to somebody who I know and trust.' Perez isn't alone, and science tells us that this kind of bond with a midwife has documented health benefits for mothers and children. ​​'When people feel safe and cared for, the hormones of labor work well, says Michelle Telfer, MHI midwife and Associate Professor of Midwifery & Women's Health at Yale School of Nursing. ​Research​ ​Telfer co-authored ​supports that women have better outcomes, including lower preterm birth rates, when they know their midwife and they have continuity of care with that midwife​.​​ ​ Plus, the personal, one-on-one care midwives traditionally offer can help with overcoming ​​implicit bias, or attitudes that unconsciously affect behavior, that contribute to higher mortality rates among minority groups. ​​​​​Indeed, ​​research​ published in JAMA states that implicit bias of physicians has been associated with false beliefs that Black patients have greater pain tolerance than white patients. ​ ​Telfer, however, stresses that building relationships is key to overcoming this bias. After her second appointment with an OB-GYN, Perez went to a local midwifery practice on the recommendation of a friend. 'Immediately it felt so different,' Perez, now a mother of three, says. 'I just felt like I was listened to, and my pregnancy was being treated as a normal thing that happens, and your body knows what to do.' Sharma also experienced firsthand how different a medicalized hospital birth is compared to one that's overseen by a midwife. In August 2019, during her third trimester, she developed gestational hypertension and had an early induction, which set off a two-and-a-half-day long labor and, ultimately, an unplanned C-section. Like nearly all new mothers, she was sent home with instructions to come back in six weeks. She ended up returning to the hospital 36 hours later with self-diagnosed postpartum preeclampsia, a condition that develops when blood pressure spikes dangerously high. 'I showed up literally on the verge of a stroke, and I saved my own life,' she says. 'What I had already begun to sense as a patient […] became a full-blown realization that our care model is completely broken.' ​​In response to what Sharma describes as the 'one size fits all' approach to pregnancy, she started building Millie in 2020. The​​ maternal health startup combines obstetric and midwifery services that women can access ​in clinics and ​virtually​. ​An app ​​​​​​that ​provides stage-relevant content, care team messaging, and other resources, as well as remote monitoring tools. ​'It was just very much a pissed off mom who was trying to build a better experience,' she says.​​ But Millie isn't the only startup capitalizing on the midwife renaissance: ​​Oula​​​ and ​​​Pomelo Care​ are both invested in rethinking women's health. A student midwife in Somaliland attends to a woman who came with complaints of weakness and dizziness six-months after giving birth. Photograph by Lynsey Addario, Nat Geo Image Collection A growing number of midwives The percentage of births attended by midwives was 10.9 percent in 2022, up from 7.9 percent in 2012, ​according to​ the American College of Nurse-Midwives. But it could be poised to grow exponentially, in part due to sheer need: According to 2021 ​projections from the ​U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, demand for ​OB-GYNs ​could exceed supply by 2030. That's particularly true in rural areas where pregnant women must increasingly travel to get care, says Holly Kennedy, a nurse midwife and the Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery Emerita at Yale School of Nursing.​ Since 2010, ​​​over 500 rural hospitals​ have closed their labor and delivery wards and more are poised to close in the near future. Kennedy only discovered midwifery herself 'by the luck of the draw' during an internship in the early 1980s. She was so impressed by the midwives, she decided to go back to school to become one herself. Today, she's passing on her knowledge to the next generation of midwives at Yale as a professor of midwifery and researcher. ​​​​​Now, there are many routes to becoming a midwife. Nurse midwives, certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board, are registered nurses with a master's or Ph.D. in midwifery. They have full prescriptive privileges and offer reproductive care from prenatal to birth to menopause. There are also midwives certified through the American ​Midwifery​​ Certification Board ​without nursing degrees but who can operate in a similar manner, as well as professional midwives who are certified through the North American Registry of Midwives for non-hospital births. And then there are traditional midwives and doulas, who aren't formally licensed but can play a vital role in the birth process. ​​ ​​​​According to the ​Commonwealth Fund​, integrating midwives into health care systems could potentially avert 41 percent of maternal deaths, 26 percent of ​stillbirths​, and 39 percent of ​neonatal​ deaths. The benefits of a midwife model of care ​​Using a midwife doesn't have to mean forgoing a doctor.​ At medical centers like NYU Langone's ​Joan H. Tisch Center for Women's Health, they're innovating on integrating the two.​​​ On a Thursday evening in May a group of about 50 women mingle​d​ over wine and hors d'oeuvres alongside the center's OB-GYNS and midwives as well as local doulas and lactation consultants. ​​​​Just last year, the hospital embedded midwifery into its obstetrics and gynecology department, chaired by Gossett. She arrived at NYU via the ​​​​University of California, San Francisco, which has a robust midwifery program, and admits that she was 'startled' by the 'lack of midwifery' at NYU. 'For the vast majority of women, [pregnancy] is a safe and healthy process,' Gossett says. ​​​​​​​While physicians can play a critical role in reproductive care, they're trained to view pregnancy as a disease process, says Gossett. In contrast, midwives treat pregnancy as a natural phenomenon. 'And to the degree that we can let [births] happen naturally. That's what we should be doing,' she says. That's why Gossett believes it's important that the midwife or group of midwives is partnered with a physician group, including high-risk obstetrics. 'When things go wrong in labor, they go wrong very fast and they can go very, very badly wrong,' she says, which is why having an embedded midwife practice within a hospital setting is ideal. 'Midwives are frontline maternity care providers in nearly all other nations, but ob-gyns are the dominant maternity care providers in the U.S.,' Sakala says. 'Because having a baby is not inherently pathological, this is a deeply irrational situation.' A parallel, she says, would be using cardiologists for routine blood pressure checks who would have a 'more interventionist approach' to healthy people.​ 'There's such a benefit [to a midwife model of care], but at the same time, you want to have an easy transition of care when things get more complicated or [a] patient changes from being a low risk patient to one that's more high risk,' says ​Joanne Stone,​​​ Professor and System Chair of the Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai​​. ​​ ​​​And other major medical centers have embedded midwifery as well—take ​​​Northwell Health,​ New York State's largest healthcare provider, which has embedded midwifery at ​​​some ​locations​, and ​​the ​​Midwifery Program​ at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, which operates independently but still ​prioritizes​​ ​​collaboration​​ with ​​physician​​ ​​colleagues​​. ​​​ Parents and a midwife in New York share a moment of joy and relief after their newborn daughter was resuscitated. In the United States, which has the highest maternal mortality rate among high-income countries, midwifery could provide solutions for women and their children. Photograph by Jackie Molloy, Nat Geo Image Collection Midwifery, Kennedy says, is a potential answer to the perinatal care crisis. But even though a recent Listening to Mothers survey found that a majority of women said they would want or would consider a midwife, the interest currently 'exceeds current levels of availability and use of midwifery care,' Sakala says. Growing pains in the profession will be inevitable since there's a shortage of teachers in the field. Telfer points out that while doctors' residencies are funded through the government, that's not the case with midwifery. Meanwhile, like all hospital care, the cost of hospital births is rising as much as 20 percent, according to some estimates. The median cost of a healthy vaginal birth in the United States is almost $29,000 (the median cost of a C-section is almost $38,0000). In comparison, midwifery is far less expensive and a more efficient way to deliver care. According to a 2020 case study by the National Partnership for Women & Families, childbirth costs at midwifery-led birth centers were ​​​​21 percent lower. 'In my mind, this is a perfect moment for us to have grown our midwifery program because they do help us grow in a cost-effective way,' Gossett says. There are also larger reforms on the horizon: Sakala cites a new model from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services called Transforming Maternal Health as 'an immediate catalyst for midwifery.' This 10-year care delivery and payment reform model in 15 states will provide resources and technical assistance that includes requirements such as increasing access to midwifery care and birth centers, Sakala says. She hopes it will 'foster a tipping point for midwifery.' Her personal goal, and one shared by Birth Center Equity, is that 50 percent of births will be attended by midwives by 2050. Getting there might require a radical rethinking of maternal health in the United States. Goode notes that there are social, structural, and political determinants of health at play, all of which need to be addressed. 'We need a big picture, systems re-imagination of the perinatal healthcare system,' she says. Midwifery can, as the evidence shows, be part of that shift, potentially leading to better outcomes for pregnant women and, like MIH in Uganda, significantly lowering the maternal mortality rate.

MHI begins work on long-term automobile policy plan for India's 2047 goal
MHI begins work on long-term automobile policy plan for India's 2047 goal

Mint

time17-07-2025

  • Automotive
  • Mint

MHI begins work on long-term automobile policy plan for India's 2047 goal

New Delhi: The Union ministry of heavy industries (MHI) on Thursday said it had begun working on a long-term automobile sector policy roadmap aligned with the goal of making India a developed nation by 2047. This plan, called the Automotive Mission Plan (AMP) 2047, involves seven sub-committees made up of all stakeholders including other line ministries, industry associations, as well as academia, a statement by the heavy industries said. The purpose of this long-term plan is to tackle challenges such as technological advancements and charging infrastructure, according to MHI. The inaugural meeting of the AMP 2047 Sub-Committees was held to outline the objectives and framework, the statement said. Read more: Siam scrambles as CAFE-3 consensus crumbles MHI additional secretary Hanif Qureshi said, 'The vision for 2047 is not an aspiration but a strategic roadmap backed by concrete targets for sector growth, exports, and industry advancement. We must think beyond specific technologies or companies and focus on India's global standing in 2047, aiming to increase our share in global automotive trade through innovation and quality.' The AMP 2047, which will set interim goals for 2030, 2037, and 2047, follows previous AMPs which applied to a decade each – 2006-16 and 2016-26. A clear policy pathway for the auto sector in the form of AMP 2047 assumes importance as it contributes about 7.1% of India's total economic output and nearly half of the country's manufacturing output, according to an April 2025 NITI Aayog statement. Representatives of the ministries of commerce, environment, forest and climate change, power, road transport and highways, petroleum and natural gas, along with industry bodies such as Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam), Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (Acma), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (Ficci) were a part of the inaugural meeting for AMP 2047, the MHI statement said. Academic institutions, research think tanks and testing agencies would also provide inputs to AMP 2047. The Centre's focus on a clear long-term automobile sector policy comes at a time when the industry is divided over state policies regarding clean mobility. India, the world's third largest automobile market by sales, has policies such as the PM E-drive scheme and the production-linked incentive scheme for automobiles and auto parts (PLI-Auto) to promote the manufacturing and adoption of zero-emission vehicles. India's electric vehicle market has been gaining momentum, with sales rising about 17% in FY25 over the previous fiscal, according to the Vahan portal. Over 1.9 million EVs were sold in India in FY25, compared with about 1.6 million in FY24. The push for clean mobility, however, has recently faced hurdles, with automakers divided on whether the government should incentivize strong hybrid vehicles. But the government has remained steadfast, and has committed to supporting all forms of clean mobility, Mint reported earlier, citing union heavy industries minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in an email interview. Decarbonization, however, is only one of the headwinds that India's auto sector is facing. A strict export control on rare earth magnets – a critical component in the auto sector – by China has pushed Indian automakers a step closer towards potential production cuts. Mint reported in July 2024 that work was underway to formulate a structure on AMP 2047 with a focus on vehicles running on various powertrains including fossil fuels, flex fuels, batteries, and green hydrogen, citing officials aware of the development. The currently ongoing AMP 2016-26 focuses on upskilling of the workforce in the auto sector, and promoting exports. According to data provided by Siam and quoted by the heavy industries ministry in a parliamentary disclosure, the country's auto sector provided direct and indirect employment to about 30.7 million people in FY20. "For a country as diverse and demand-sensitive as India, an all-inclusive approach is non-negotiable. AMP 2047 must unify fragmented policy signals into a coherent national strategy - one that accelerates localization, de-risks investments, and positions India as a global mobility hub,' said Randheer Singh, former director of electric mobility, NITI Aayog. Singh added that India's auto sector is transforming from fragmented to integrated policy regimes. 'The biggest challenge isn't just technological. It is synchronizing market evolution with regulatory certainty and long-term capital planning.'

India targets phase-wise goals under Automotive Mission Plan 2047
India targets phase-wise goals under Automotive Mission Plan 2047

Time of India

time17-07-2025

  • Automotive
  • Time of India

India targets phase-wise goals under Automotive Mission Plan 2047

India will set phase-wise goals under the Automotive Mission Plan (AMP) 2047. An official statement said seven sub-committees will guide the development of a comprehensive plan targeting milestones for 2030, 2037, and 2047. These sub-committees comprise experts from government, industry, and academia. AMP 2047 seeks to integrate the collective vision of stakeholders, including Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), auto component manufacturers, policymakers, academia, and end users, to address challenges like technological advancements and charging infrastructure. Explore courses from Top Institutes in Select a Course Category Others Finance others Data Analytics PGDM Operations Management MBA Data Science healthcare Public Policy Cybersecurity Healthcare MCA Digital Marketing CXO Product Management Artificial Intelligence Management Data Science Degree Leadership Project Management Design Thinking Skills you'll gain: Duration: 7 Months S P Jain Institute of Management and Research CERT-SPJIMR Exec Cert Prog in AI for Biz India Starts on undefined Get Details Skills you'll gain: Duration: 28 Weeks MICA CERT-MICA SBMPR Async India Starts on undefined Get Details Skills you'll gain: Duration: 28 Weeks MICA CERT-MICA SBMPR Async India Starts on undefined Get Details Skills you'll gain: Duration: 9 months IIM Lucknow SEPO - IIML CHRO India Starts on undefined Get Details Skills you'll gain: Duration: 16 Weeks Indian School of Business CERT-ISB Transforming HR with Analytics & AI India Starts on undefined Get Details The inaugural meeting of the AMP 20247 sub-committees was held Thursday to outline the objectives and framework. Speaking at the session, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI), Hanif Qureshi said, 'We must think beyond specific technologies or companies and focus on India's global standing in 2047.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Struggling With Belly Fat? Try This at Home Home Fitness Hack Shop Now Undo These sub-committees will consolidate ideas and data for presentation to an apex committee, chaired by MHI Secretary Kamran Rizvi.

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