In rural India, there has been widespread hesitancy to get the COVID-19 vaccine, despite the fact the area accounts for 65% of the country’s population. Doctors with Amrita Hospital are reaching out to our teams in villages to help share information about the safety of the vaccine, especially in remote tribal areas.
With funding from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs [MoTA], which has declared Amrita as a Tribal Center of Excellence, Amrita Ayurveda has united with AmritaCREATE to boost the health, nutritional, and economic status of tribals through digital learning.
The sudden and devastating losses of human life during the Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the world without prejudice. The Government of India and the medical community have provided timely guidance to India's citizens, which has significantly curbed the spread of this infection in one of the world'smost populated countries.
Amrita's Upliftment of Traditional Tribal Healers in Odisha.
Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of 41st President of the United States George H.W. Bush and sister of 43rd President George W. Bush, officially welcomed Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi to Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2019. “Doro” and her sister-in-law, Patricia Reilly Koch, garlanded Amma, received her blessings and offered a few words.
Dr. P. R. Janci Rani, Assistant Professor, Food Nutrition and Health Education Center, Coimbatore campus, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been appointed as a 'Roster Nutrition Consultant' for four consecutive years (2018-2022) by UNICEF-India. She will join hands in meeting the prime objectives of the National Nutrition Mission.
Dr. Prema Nedungadi, Director, AmritaCREATE ( Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education) presented Amrita Learning, India’s first Intelligent Tutoring System, at Mobile Learning Week, MLW 2019, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from March 4-8, 2019.
Amrita Learning App, a finalist in the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE competition, emerged as a winner in its final phase amongst 108 other registered teams and was adjudged to be providing one of the best ways to accelerate adult literacy in the US using mobile solutions.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, has given Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham the title of ‘Centre of Excellence in Tribal Empowerment through Digital Inclusion’ on October 9, 2018.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organised a workshop on Online Labs, an educational initiative pioneered by AmritaCREATE, in partnership with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized an Online Labs workshop at Hongirana School of Excellence, Karnataka, as part of the Online Labs training programme on August 5, 2018.
Online Labs (OLabs), one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics, Technologies & Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has reached almost two lakh students across the country.
