By Dr. N.K Sharma, Director at Reiki Healing Foundation

The naturopathy principle was first used by the Hippocratic School of Medicine in about 400 BC. The Greek philosopher Hippocrates thinks of viewing the whole person in view to finding a cause of disease and using the laws of nature to encourage cure.

Before starting the article, you should know what is Naturopathy? A Naturopath empowers the patient to take responsibility for his/her own health by teaching self-care, they are not just another doctor for consultation, they do not emphasis much on treatments but try to open the eyes of the patients, they educate them the laws of nature and health, they are made to believe that their body is all the time engaged in the healing process, striving for normal condition. The idea of Naturopathy is to work with the body, to help it in its natural ability to heal and keep healthy. Treatments are natural and include herbal remedies, lifestyle changes, and dietary modifications, and in some cases other balancing techniques including massage and acupuncture.

If you have a concern in working with people, helping and enabling them to improve, maintain or recover their health and well-being, and doing so in a personal, gentle manner, Naturopathy could well be the career for you! This article is written with the purpose to educate the aspirants who want to choose a career in Naturopathy.

Scope for Naturopathy doctors in India

A career in Naturopathy (Complementary medicine) is not allied with an ordinary 9 to 5 job. As a Naturopath, you have to treat with different clienteles, which can range from elderly people with chronic health objections to pregnant women with their children or the people suffering from constant high stress. The final objective of the Naturopath is to gradually and smoothly improve the health of their patients by allowing and motivating them to adapt to a much healthier lifestyle.

Obviously, there are healings that are aimed at the illness-causing different symptoms, but not at masking the individual symptoms themselves. It’s about treating the whole body, its physical, emotional, and mental aspects.

Skills and Knowledge

Complementary medicine has been considered by western medical practitioners. In India, naturopaths are assigned in govt. as well as private hospitals and health centers. On the other hand, they can also start their own undertakings as well. Naturopathy deals with the body as a whole. As such, naturopaths must have knowledge about the human biological sciences from anatomy and physiology to cell and molecular biology. They should have a clear idea of the current knowledge of pathophysiology and symptomatology, a comprehensive understanding of nutrition, medicinal herbs as well as digestive anatomy and physiology.

Career options

Naturopaths can opt for different fields based on their expertise, sector, choice, interest, and knowledge. Some of the important broad disciplines where a naturopath may find good opportunities are- Academic, Hospital and Healthcare Administration, Research, Management & Administration, Health Supervisor, and Naturopathy Consultation in the form of an instructor, expert, specialist

Opportunities in Government jobs

Naturopathy degree holders may have a good chance of taking up employment in the government sector. Moreover, they have healthier employment opportunities outside the country as well. Both the government and private sectors offer a good salary package for a deserving naturopathic provider. The center and the state governments are continuously at the forefront to hire such experts for their various organizations.

Salary offers

Naturopaths generally earn more when they start their own practice or clinics. On the other hand, the earnings may still vary, depending on the number of patients they see every day. The Initial salary of naturopaths can be in the range of Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 20,000 per month. In developed countries like Britain and America, the salary range varies between USD 15,000 to 25,000 per annum.

Eligibility Criteria

A number of govt. and private colleges in India suggest a Naturopathy course, Bachelor of Naturopathy Sciences (BNS). Go through the following points to have in-depth knowledge about the course. If you want to enroll in BNS, then you must have cleared class 12th with subjects as Physics, Chemistry, and Biology from a recognized board with 55% of the aggregate marks.

The minimum age for joining the course is 18 years. After successfully completing the BNS, one can pursue higher studies in M.Phil. and Ph.D.

Prevention is better than cure

A Naturopath may take away toxic substances and conditions from a patient’s lifestyle to prevent the onset of further disease. The simple law of health is that body is not designed to become sick, sickness is to be earned by our wrong choices and lifestyle. If do not choose disease, the body will never create any symptoms till the last breath. Except for naturopathy, there is no known therapy or pathy on this earth which can be called preventive medicine.

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Job prospect of B-schools in 2021?

Amidst the significant disruption caused by COVID-19 pandemic, though the companies are still hiring, their expectations from young graduates in terms of skill-sets have increased for obvious reasons. The year 2021 will be the year of recovery in a big way, although top packages might see a hit but the total number of placements and the average package will remain unaffected.

What are the new trends to be seen B-Schools Curriculum in 2021?

The curriculum for all B-schools will undergo transformational changes and will become more rigorous and skill-oriented in a gradual manner in 2021 with the adoption of National Education Policy. Practical knowledge and application-based learning will be the key focus for all the institutions. Blended learning is an important pedagogy for B-Schools; the same has been put forward quite well in the NEP 2020. Blended learning broadens the horizon and develops skill sets, which are essential for the students to succeed in the 21st century’s technologically advanced environment. Also, it offers flexibility to students to enroll in part-time courses so that they have more control over how they choose to structure their personal learning experience. Blended education offers online components to allow increased flexibility, while attending classes and at the same time interacting with cohorts and professors to build a business network in a similar way as in a full-time course which is the need of the hour.

Going forward we at JKBS, betting big on outcome-based approach and problem based learning in order to harness the “higher-order thinking skills” (HOTS). This will foster analytical and critical thinking abilities of students and help them make data-based decisions and inculcate cross-cultural perspectives so they can function seamlessly in a global business environment. Thus, our focus will be majorly on working on real-time projects with industry professionals to give students firsthand experience of the real-world scenarios.

In the last few years, there has been exponential growth in data generated by people and objects has far outpaced the growth in talented resources that can derive value out of it. There is an unusually high gap between the supply and demand of outstanding professionals who can understand the data and derive useful business intelligence from it. Inorder to bridge this gap, Business Analytics is undoubtedly the need of the hour.

Business Analytics will be the core pillar B-School curriculum to achieve growth and competitive advantage. This is also to ensure that upcoming generations are having a strong learning base in one of the most alluring careers in days to come.

What challenges are you facing in providing digital education?

As coronavirus upends the world, we adopted Google Meet under G-Suite as our preferred platform for the delivery of lectures to ensure that students don’t miss a single class of their ongoing trimester. Google Classroom is an excellent platform as a one-stop solution for all course-related activities including examination and evaluation. Therefore, COVID- 19 did not impact our learning pedagogy much. The students were well-acquainted with the online classroom learning during their regular classes too. We ensured that our students stay safe during these unprecedented times and their learning doesn’t stop.

The only disadvantage of online learning is the loneliness of a learner which creeps in when you’re engaging with technology and learning all by yourself. It can cause fatigue. To address that, we facilitated group discussions, joint presentations, and assignments in order to increase interaction among peers in virtual classrooms. In the future, there has to be a judicious mix. B-schools have the responsibility to prepare students for a corporate career. So, teaching students to perform tasks online and work with team members is crucial and inescapable.

Industry-education partnerships have always been an important part of JKBS, digital education has highlighted the need for such support more than ever. As it will augment the research facilities to students and groom them to deal with the challenges arising due to the technological advancements.

What is the scenario of campus placement for the next batch?

At present, companies might be reluctant to hire, but to maintain a relationship with business schools in the future, they will be taking part in the placement process and hiring students. In Spite of the challenges companies are hiring, it will definitely increase from the next batch onwards. Also, placement prospects of business schools aren’t going to be affected in terms of the numbers but in terms of the highest packages given. We are hoping that by the next placement session situations will improve and will come under control.

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All eyes were on the Budget 2021, in the wake of the pandemic and the damage unleashed by it, this Union budget became all more important.  The expectations were rife that the budget will come up with many big bang reforms and will give a fresh booster to almost all the ailing sectors and the Indian economy.

Amidst all the sectors, the education sector was the one that was hit badly by the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic. Massive disruptions induced by this pandemic wreaked havoc in this sector as well.  That is why the whole education sector was looking up to the Budget 2021 for giving it a shot of normalization.

Also, this budget was important as this was the first budget after the announcement of the new ‘National Education Policy’ (NEP) thus the education sector was eagerly waiting to see how NEP’s proposals will be implemented.

Just to consolidate the educational sector in India, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that 15,000 schools will be qualitatively strengthened to include all the components of NEP 2020. These schools will also mentor other schools in their regions to achieve the standards envisioned by the new policy. In addition to these 100 new Sainik schools will be set up in partnership with NGOs, private schools, and states.

To oversee the quality of higher education, the government left no stone unturned, the FM announced setting up a Higher Education Commission.

Apart from all these announcements, efforts are being made to make quality education accessible in the far-flung areas, and thus in this direction, the government announced the opening up of a new Central University in Leh.

For making the idea of equitable education for all, the government not only opened up the schools but also took the cognizance of the students belonging from the downtrodden section of society, the budget 2021 purposed for the welfare of 4 crore Scheduled Caste students, the post-matric scholarship scheme will be revamped. Rs 35,219 crore will be spent over a span of 6 years, i.e, till 2025-26.

The intent of the government in taking forward the idea of skill India got a big boost in the current budget rolled out the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme, an initiative launched in 2016, will be amended to amplify apprenticeship opportunities for youth. Rs 3,000 crore will be spent on The Apprenticeship Act to provide post-education apprenticeship training to Engineering graduates and diploma holders.

The budget also ramped up the spending on Kendriya Vidyalayas which have risen from Rs 5,516 crore to Rs 6,800 crore. Allocation for mid-day meal schemes and Navodaya Vidyalayas have been increased by Rs 500 crore each.

But apart from all the good things announced in the budget 2021, there is a serious concern that the government has slashed the allocation to the education ministry by whooping Rs 6000 crore and it raises serious concerns as this cut came in the year when India is gearing up for the implementation of the National Education Policy. The education ministry will receive Rs 93,224.31 in 2021-22, which is Rs 6,086.89 crore less than the previous year.

The total budget addressed some key concerns and paved the way for a stronger education sector but also missed out on addressing some key issues that would have changed the face of the education sector in India.

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What is your opinion about the budget?

This has been a very positive union budget announcement for the Education sector. With focus of creating 100 more Sainik schools through a partnership model, universities in underrepresented geographies and ear marking budgets of Rs 50,000 crore over 5 years for research under the NRF, this sector is bound to see positive growth. For higher education, the announcement of creating  a framework and legislation will go a long way to create structural benefits to the higher education space. The focus on education reforms coupled with bold measures to encourage startups will help a lot of Edu-tech companies to grow and emerge.

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Education and learning ecosystems need to play a big role in filling the gap. We must debunk the notion that technological innovation is a challenge to people’s jobs. According to Gartner, AI will automate 1.8 million jobs and create 2.3 million — a net increase of 500,000. A World Economic Forum report estimates AI could create 58 million net new jobs by 2022.

If students aren’t upskilled in AI, some may find their skills obsolete for the next century. As AI expands, so will related job positions. Future jobs in AI have the potential to uplift entire communities including underdeveloped and underserved communities.

Emergence of Cloud and Data Science

As Cloud and data science matures and continue to make a significant impact on society, we would see required introductory courses in these subjects enter standard curriculum. People talk about the potential impact of AI, but less so about how it works. By educating students and existing workforce on artificial intelligence, we will demystify technology and drive less fearful, more productive dialogue on its impact.

With global lockdowns, many schools and universities transitioned to online course delivery and operations almost immediately. But this need of transition to online learning due to Covid-19 has exposed significant gaps in education supply chain. The answer to that too lies with AI. While there have been many technological advancements in the past decade, the education industry has been slower to adapt. With the right level of support from tech giants, government and willingness of education industry to invest can allow the quick adoption of cloud to conduct and process tuitions, evaluations and entrance examinations. Government and social sector interventions can help ensure the percolation of AI is egalitarian.

Even the niche yet growing edutech sector saw a surge in scale and responded with broader services and offerings. The market for AI tutoring has been projected to reach nearly $120 billion by 2021.

AI is changing how we learn and comprehend. Traditionally we have seen numerous barriers prevent education from reaching its full potential: money, space, availability, affordability and accessibility, among others.

AI offers a promising solution by solving most of these issues as it offers personalised education on an unmatched scale. For now it’s only available to a fortunate few. In that sense it is widening the learning gap which needs to be addressed through social interventions.

How can AI help us?

With AI powered Education Apps and smart content ranging from mathematics, arts, science to writing, AI systems can address specific learning needs of students and provide individualised and efficient feedback in addition to adaptive behavioural analytics with positive and data-driven learning experience.

Stanford’s 100 Year Study on Artificial Intelligence says: “This development will facilitate more customisable approaches to learning, in which students can learn at their own pace using educational techniques that work best for them.”

If we can combine AI with virtual reality (VR), it can make the classroom feel out of this world. Platforms like ClassVR offer technology allowing students to interact, gesture control etc. This helps in raising engagement and knowledge retention for students of all ages.

AI and Machine Leaning (ML) tools combined with Digital Assistants can help establish global classrooms to overcome the barrier of language used for education delivery or for that matter for cater to those with visual or hearing impairments. Today, Presentation Translator (or other tools like Google Translator) provides a free plug-in for PowerPoint that creates subtitles in real time for what the teacher is saying.

This also opens up possibilities of converting niche courses to On-demand for students who might not be able to attend school due to illness or who require learning at a different level or on a particular subject that isn’t available in their own school or geography.

AI can drive personalization, efficiency for knowledge dispensation, and streamline associated admin tasks to allow teachers the much-required time to provide understanding and tool for adapting lessons for unique human capabilities where machines would struggle.

It can also help teachers. Teachers spend hours grading. AI can automate the grading process allowing teachers to spend more time with their students and focus on actual learning and practical knowledge. According to a report by UNESCO, roughly 60,000 schools in China have implemented an essay-grading machine that matches humans 92% of the time.

Conclusion

But for all this to work we need to ensure AI is implemented ethically with unbiased algorithms. AI technology can’t ever replace an in-person instructor with a full spectrum of emotions. Not for young children at least. As the power of AI, VR, AR and Cloud is growing exponentially, it’s important to leverage it ethically for good, not just for efficiency and scale. It will be important for educators and policymakers to explore the intersection of education and artificial intelligence.

As AI educational solutions continue to mature, it can help fill needs gaps in learning and teaching and allow schools and teachers to stretch the boundaries of what was thought to be possible in education.

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Indian Budget 2021 comes at an anvil of COVID led lockdown dismantling years of effort to create a business ecosystem followed by a renewed effort to create a fresh ecosystem on the existing framework in a completely new environment with new Norms.

The government of India prudently stayed away from providing fiscal stimulus in 2020 post-Covid 19 after mar allowing the market forces to find a balance assisted by monetary stimulus provided by Government and RBI. This in a way ensured struggling / inefficient units already in bad shape post demonetization and GST rollout to wind up shop, further leading to a swarm of bad loans in NBFC Books. Big Corporates flushed with funds and capability to raise funds swiftly created new structures & entered new product lines leading to capturing of larger mind and market share, palpably visible by the excitement of the stock markets at the anvil of the most destructive year in GDP growth rate terms in our recorded economic history.

2020 also gave India a Trade Surplus and by the end of the year GST collections also started touching record numbers indicating that is more likely to be a V shape recovery, further giving confidence to the finance minister to deliver what has the potential to be a landmark budget in comparison to what we have seen in some time.

As expected, the top Agenda would be to drive domestic production and push “atmanirbhar bharat”, yet another effort to boost domestic production and manufacturing. We have seen similar such efforts in the past 50 years unable to push Manufacturing sharing in GDP beyond the early two digits. This should also pave way for Sops for EOUs across industries trying to position India as an alternative manufacturing hub for the world.

Skilling which saw its entire previous year’s outlay go unutilized, would see a special impetus from government and we are looking at historic allocation in “skilling” as the process of reskilling and bringing back the unemployed to the labor market assumes prime focus.

Pharma and Healthcare should further get special SOPs. In an ideal environment, the public outlay on healthcare would increase substantially and a slew of new schemes be launched to upgrade our rural and urban healthcare system which though has gone significant improvement last year still needs greater attention for any future threat of similar nature.

Infrastructure will see a major push and major fund allocation will go in mega infrastructure projects. NREGA will further, see record budget allocation and some specials sops for Real Estate sector might be in for offering to improve the sentiment of realty sector in the country.

The service sector has seen a varied impact in the previous year with IT, telecom, healthcare, eCommerce gaining significant momentum whereas traditional hospitality, travel, tourism, education sectors taking a serious hit. This presents an opportunity for a special sop for these lagger sectors responsible for providing a host of white-collar jobs. Services also took the biggest hit in the GST transition and the sector would be hoping for some respite in form of significant tax cuts/incentives. This is less likely, but we may see some directional announcement letting the ball rolling for the future GST Council meets to take forward.

Corporates have received big doles in the form of Corporate tax cuts in previous years which in turn significantly boosted their reserves and valuations. In this Budget the Finance Minister might trim those gains by levying a few cess to consolidate more revenues. On the positive side, Corporates will expect the Government to push FDI in multiple sectors. A stress to promote innovation and incubation via start-up route will be visible to promote entrepreneurism and create a sustainable ecosystem to create unicorns of the future.

Middle Class has been hoping for tax breaks and this year might be the year for Government to do some overhaul providing much-needed relief to the taxpayer’s pocket and further intensive being rolled out for home buying and /or long-term saving instruments. Rich and Ultra rich might have to bear a bit more in form of cess and innovative taxes as government creates newer long-term revenue avenues.

Education will see the government pushing NEP roll out and incentivize ed-tech. The Government should not let this go of this opportunity and push larger public-private partnerships in both education and healthcare and create incentives to drive CSR Budgets in this direction.

Banking is an area we can further see a set of reforms with the government swiftly moving forward to further capitalization of banks in turn leading to reduction of PSU banks to 4 as envisioned. A major impetus in setting up Bad Bank and resolving the challenges of NBFC will be seen and might create the foundation for a fresh start to Modern India’s Financial Institutions. 

On Agriculture, Defence and Energy the government will continue increasing the outlay and promoting the pre-set it has set course of the previous year with a cautious increase in spends to ensure they are well funded for the nature of their strategic importance.

In all, we can expect a prudent, practical and a positive budget!

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As per the official notification released by MP Vyapam, the online registration process for the same will conclude on October 12.

MP Vyapam Recruitment 2020: Details of the post

Total posts: 53

How to apply for Group 3 posts at MP Vyapam:

1. Go to the official website of MP Vyapam, peb.mponline.gov.in
2. On the homepage, search for, “Group-03 (Sub Engineer/Draftsman) Recruitment Test-2020”
3. Click on “Apply Online”
4. Fill the application form in the prescribed format
5. Upload the relevant documents and pay the fees
6. Click on submit

MP Vyapam Recruitment 2020: Educational qualification required

To apply for Group 3 vacancies, the candidate should be Class 12 pass from a recognised board/university along with a diploma in the concerned subject.

Age limit:

The applicant should be in the age group of 18 to 40 years. Further, the candidates from the reserved category will get age relaxation as per the government norms.

Application fee to be paid:

Gen/OBC: Rs 500

SC/ST/Ex-Servicemen: Rs 250

Important dates to remember:

Last date to apply: October 12, 2020

Application correction date: Till October 17, 2020

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After the application process begins, interested and eligible candidates can apply for the positions online at bankofindia.co.in on or before September 30, 2020.

The recruitment drive is being conducted to fill 214 vacancies, out of which, 4 vacancies are for Economist, 2 for Statistician, 9 for Risk Manager, 60 for Credit Analyst, 79 for Credit Officers, 30 for IT (Fintech), 12 for IT (Data Analyst), 8 for IT (Info.Security), and 10 for Tech Appraisal.

Candidates belonging to the general category are required to pay an application fee of Rs 850. For reserved category candidates, the registration fee is Rs 175.

“Selection will be through online test and/or personal interview/GD, depending on the number of applicants/eligible candidates. In case online test is conducted, the weightage (ratio) of Online Examination and interview will be 80:20. The combined final scores of candidates shall be arrived at on the basis of total scores obtained by the candidates in Online Examination (marks obtained in General Awareness with special reference to Banking Industry and Professional Knowledge paper) and Interview. A candidate should be found suitable both in the Online Examination and interview to be eligible for final selection,” reads the official notice.

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Candidates are required to apply online through website www.pnbindia.in. No other means/ mode of application will be accepted. The candidates can apply only for one post. The last date to apply for PNB SO Recruitment 2020 is September 29.

Detail of the vacancies:

Total vacancies: 535 posts

Name of the post:

• Manager (Risk) – 160 Posts
• Manager (Credit) – 200 Posts
• Manager (Treasury) – 30 Posts
• Manager (Architect) – 25 Posts
• Manager (Civil) – 2 Posts
• Manager (Economic) – 10 Posts
• Manager (HR) – 10 Posts
• Senior Manager (Risk) – 40 Posts
• Senior Manager (Credit) – 50 Posts

How to apply for PNB SO Recruitment 2020:

In order to apply online for of 535 Specialist Officers vacancies, all the candidates need to follow the below mentioned steps:

1. Log on to the official website of PNB, pnbindia.in
2. On the homepage, click on the tab “Recruitments”
3. Under “NOTICE DATED (07-09-2020)” click on “PNB SO Registration”
4. Candidates are required to have a valid personal email ID and Contact No
5. Fill the application form in the prescribed format
6. Pay the PNB SO application fee and upload all the relevant documents
7. Click on FINAL SUBMIT button.

Application fee to be paid:

SC/ST/PWBD category candidates: Rs 175 per candidate (only intimation charges)

All other candidates: Rs 850 per candidate

Selection procedure:

Selection will be through online test and/or interview. Merely satisfying the eligibility norms do not entitle a candidate to be called for Test or Interview.

Important dates:

Last date to apply: September 29, 2020

Exam date: Oct/Nov

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Engineering Services Division of Bharat Electronics Ltd, a Navaratna Company and India’s premier professional electronics company, needs the following personnel for a period of two years for the execution of various prestigious projects.

BEL Recruitment 2020: Vacancy Details

Civil Engineer: 18 Posts

Electrical/EEE Engineer: 11 Posts

Mechanical Engineer: 08 Posts

BEL Recruitment 2020: Eligibility Criteria

BE/BTech (Civil) or (Electrical/ EEE) or (Mechanical) Age Limit: 28 years

Salary: Consolidated remuneration per month 1st Year – Rs 35,000 2nd Year – Rs 40,000 3rd Year – Rs 45,000 4th Year – Rs 50,000

BEL Recruitment 2020: How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply for BEL Recruitment 2020 from the prescribed application format on or before September 27, 2020.

Candidates who meet the above requirement may apply online by clicking the relevant link provided against the advertisement.

Candidates are required to enter all information correctly in the online application form and verify the same before submission. Requests for any changes in the submitted applications will not be entertained.

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