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 …
SANGAM (ALLAHABAD): Mahamandleshwar Santosh Das Ji Maharaj has asked followers and devotees visiting his camp to plant saplings, calling it a step towards environment protection. He said 'vayu snan' (air shower) was one of the important four snans (baths) and everyone should strive towards keeping the environment clean and green. …
The Worldwide Cost of Living is a bi-annual (twice yearly) Economist Intelligence Unit survey that compares more than 400 individual prices across 160 products and services. These include food, drink, clothing, household supplies and personal care items, home rents, transport, utility bills, private schools, domestic help and recreational costs. The …
Child labour in the livestock sector is widespread and largely ignored, according to FAO, which has released the first global study on child labour issues related to livestock. The FAO publication, "Children's work in the livestock sector: Herding and beyond", points out that agriculture accounts for most of the reported …
77.4 % OF CLASS V STUDENTS UNABLE TO SOLVE SIMPLE SUMS FROM CLASS III Pune: An annual national survey in 2012 of school-going children’s ability in mathematics and reading has put Maharashtra right at the bottom with just about 22.6% of the total number of Class V students surveyed able …
INDORE: The World Bank Group has announced the launch of 2013 India Development Marketplace in Madhya Pradesh and pledged $1 million in grants to be awarded on a competitive basis to social enterprises for their development solutions. Development Marketplace, supported by the World Bank, is a competitive grant-based program. It …
An evening to honour India’s changemakers They took the path less travelled, and on Monday it will lead a group of remarkable men and women to the stage for the second Times of India Social Impact Awards in association with J P Morgan. The awards are being given to changemakers …
The 2012 Global Go To Think Tank Rankings marks the sixth edition of the annual report. As in previous years, the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania’s International Relations Program has relied on the indexing criteria and process developed by James G. McGann for …
Pune: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the state government was preparing a new legislation to set rules for integrated urbanization. “Today over 50% of the population in the state lives in urban areas and more villages are merging with urban areas. Urban governance has become challenge in …
According to ASER, there has been a 10% increase in private school enrolments over the last three years Private schools in India attracted a large chunk of students in the 6-14 age group, according to the Annual Status of Education Report 2012 (ASER) by Pratham. However, the quality of education …
The State Budget for 2013-14 may cross Rs 60,000 crore, about Rs 8,000 crore more than Rs 52,030.70 crore outlay proposed for 2012-13. Odisha’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) for the next fiscal has been pegged at Rs 2.9 lakh crore, which is 11.53 per cent higher than the current …
With more than half of all children in standard five at least three grade levels behind where they should be, the standards of learning continue to deteriorate in the country, thanks to the Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system, mass recruitment of teachers and the high-level curriculum in the early stages …
NEW DELHI: With learning levels in the country dipping to an all-time low it is states like Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand where the least number of children can read, while those in Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh are worst in basic arithmetic. According to the Annual Status of Education …
The National Institute of Open Schooling was an instant choice. The sheer scale of operations — NIOS gave 5 lakh out-of-school students the chance to get an education in 2011-12 — ensured its selection as a winner in the government category. If NIOS was about scale, Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya No.2 …
Inclusiveness, especially in education, rang out as a cause close to the hearts of the jury at the awards. And their selection of Pratham USA as the winner in the category of International Contribution to India seemed to confirm this. Through the three-hour deliberations, issues of inclusiveness kept cropping up …
The government has undertaken an ambitious integrated programme to develop four Districts, Ampara, Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Polonnaruwa, as part of the seventh Deyata Kirula exhibition to be held at the Hardy Technical Training Institute, Ampara on Feb. 4. The government had allocated Rs. 45.3 billion for selected projects in the …
India Infrastructure Report 2012 discusses challenges in the education sector – elementary, secondary, higher and vocational – and explores strategies for constructive change and opportunities for the private sector. It suggests that immediate steps are required to reform the sector to reap the benefits from India’s 'demographic dividend' due to …
The key objectives of the Environment Master Plan are to enable the State of Himachal Pradesh to: Simultaneously address issues of ecological and environment restoration and bring convergence along with the development activities taking place in the state; Engage and ensure close coordination with all the concerned development departments, both …
Bihar statistical hand book is a biennial publication of the Directorate. Bihar statistical handbook 2012 is designed to give a synoptic view of the state economy through statistics. It incorporates tables with latest data on area and population, climate and rainfall, agriculture and irrigation, livestock, fisheries, forest, education, science and …
The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) has given priority to restoration of water bodies while preparing a Comprehensive Environment Management Plan (CEMP) in the mining-affected districts in Karnataka. The affected districts are Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur. V.K. Bahuguna, Director-General, ICFRE, who toured the affected areas on December …
Udaipur-based Hindustan Zinc has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Rajasthan Government for adopting 92 Government schools in phases in Chittorgarh and Bhilwara districts. The group will improve facilities in these schools under the public-private partnership model. Hindustan Zinc plans to spend about Rs.3.35 crore on the project. While …
