Union Budget 2022-23 gave a push to infrastructure to improve the economy. But it didn't do enough to solve the immediate crisis of huge unemployment and increased poverty caused by the pandemic.
Even though India missed the target of vaccinating the entire adult population by December 2021, around 90% of the adult population took at least one dose of vaccine. As of 12th January 2022, more than 154.50 crore people are vaccinated. Now, the younger population aged 15 to 18 years are also being vaccinated.
It aims to correct the previous industrial revolution by developing technologies in a human-centric way. It empowers workers instead of replacing them with machines.
Cobots (collaborative robots), which are people-focused robots will take care of the monotonous or unsafe tasks and humans will refine the work. So, humans will have control over everything.
Until recently, traditional 9 to 5 jobs are the popular form of employment. But COVID pandemic changed the way we work. Now, alternative work arrangements such as work from home, gig work are becoming increasingly popular.