The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Throughout the 2000-2010 decade, Bangladesh experienced steady and strong GDP growth of nearly 6 percent per year on average. During this period, poverty rates also demonstrated an impressive steady improvement, falling by about 1.7 percentage points per year. Using data from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), a joint …
The country’s inability to achieve all the tenets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the established deadline has prompted various City-based volunteer organisations to compile recommendations for submission to the United Nations. The deadline for the achieving eight key goals, which range from halving extreme poverty rates, to halting …
SATKHIRA : The annual budget of Satkhira municipality for 2013-14 fiscal year was announced on Thursday, reports UNB. Municipality Mayor M A Jalil announced the budget at poura auditorium without imposing any new tax. The budget envisages an earning of Tk 36.84 crore and the same amount will be spent …
Union government is copying some of our schemes such as Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy Scheme: Jayalalithaa The plan outlay for Tamil Nadu for 2013-14 has been fixed at Rs. 37,128 crore, which is 32.8 per cent higher than that of 2012-13. The plan size for 2013-14 includes the Central assistance of …
Disparity between the rural and urban population has widened further in the state. The income distribution has become more skewed. The rising share of the services and industrial sectors in the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) has not effected any changes in the state’s occupational structure. The share of industrial …
Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India aims to provide an overview of existing innovative practices that increase the inclusion of internal migrants in society and act as a living document that would inspire and assist professionals and governments officials in their attempts to facilitate the social inclusion of migrants. …
Meghalaya for 2013-14 was on Tuesday finalized at Rs 4151 crore following a meeting between Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma and other members of his Cabinet colleagues. At the same time the Planning Commission, after a marathon meeting at the Yojana …
In the past two decades, progress in tackling malnutrition has been pitifully slow. This report demonstrate how investment in nutrition is not only the right thing to do, it is a down-payment on future prosperity. The evidence present shows that preventing malnutrition of children and women in the crucial 1,000-day …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan is utilizing only 2% grant allocated for elementary education on children's entitlements and quality of education which is among the minimum in the country, though it is spending 76% of the grant on teachers. This was the conclusion of the annual Paise report prepared by Accountability Initiative (a …
Guwahati, May 23: Minority-dominated Dhubri district has recorded the highest population growth rate in Assam while Kokrajhar has recorded the lowest, according to the 2011 census, the final findings of which were released today. Assam ranks 14th in the country in terms of population. While Assam recorded a population growth …
Most districts of South Haryana have fared poorly on the sex ratio, final population figures of Census 2011 for the State released on Wednesday have revealed. The sex ratio has gone up from 861 in 2001 to 879 in 2011, but it is still less than the all-India sex ratio …
The 2011 Census has brought both good and bad news for Gurgaon. The fast developing city, according to census figures, has the highest literacy rate and the worst sex ratio in the state. The data shows that Gurgaon has a literacy rate of 84.7 per cent, followed by Panchkula at …
The super speciality cancer institute proposed to be set up here will have in-house facilities for research, educational programmes and training of medical and para-medical personnel. The Cabinet on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for setting up the institute . The Cabinet meeting was presided over by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister …
In the 'Report to the People', released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on the fourth anniversary of UPA-II, the government presented figures to highlight growth in employment and doubling of wages under MNREGA, three-fold increase in food subsidy, growth in social sector schemes and tele-density. …
The Annual Plan for Assam for 2013-14 was on Tuesday finalised at Rs. 12,500 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. Initiating the discussions, Mr. Ahluwalia lauded the State’s economic performance in the last four to five years …
Highest priority to social services sector The Planning Commission today approved a Rs 27,072-crore Annual Plan for Haryana. The outlay includes Rs 7,513 crore for state public sector enterprises (PSEs) and Rs 1,559 crore for local bodies to be met from their own resources. The net State Plan outlay, excluding …
The Asian Development Bank will maintain its lending rate to India of about $2 billion per annum for the next three years, which will be invested in power, transportation, water and sanitation, the multilateral bank’s president Takehiko Nakao said on Sunday. Nakao added that the bank had identified some projects …
Awardees include profit and not-for-profit firms in M.P., Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand The World Bank Institute awarded $2 million (Rs. 10.74 crores) to 20 organisations working in the sectors of financial inclusion, trafficking, health, education and livelihood. The grant of $ 100,000 (Rs. 53.7 lakhs) per project is to help these …
Planning Commission of India (PCI) has fixed the annual plan size for Arunachal Pradesh for the current financial year at Rs 3,700 crore which includes Rs 3,177 crore of central assistance. The plan size was finalised at a meeting held between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Arunachal …
Of the 127,942 households in Bhutan 11,049 are poor and 2,322 extremely poor the poverty assessment report (PAR) 2012 states. This means nine percent are poor and two percent extremely poor based on the new total poverty line of a minimum consumption expenditure of Nu 1,704.80 a person a month. …
