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 …
This new report by MHHDC addresses governance from the point of view of empowerment. It analyses governance of political, economic, and social institutions from the perspective of how people are being empowered in South Asia. This report addresses governance from the point of view of empowerment. It analyses governance of …
The publication ‘Children in India 2012 – A Statistical Appraisal’, analyses the conditions of children in the fields of child survival, child development and child protection. The publication includes an introductory chapter which addresses the issues of definition of child in various contexts, constitutional and legal provisions for children and …
New Delhi: No child below the age of 14 years can now be employed under Indian laws. The government today brought about major changes to existing anti- child labour legislations to bring them in consonance with the Right to Education Act that mandates free and compulsory elementary education for all …
Bhopal: Sakshar Bharat (Literate India) Scheme would be implemented in 42 districts of Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims at imparting functional literacy to unlettered persons of over 15 years of age. The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has instructed to constitute literacy committees upto Panchayat level after identifying the …
23% of girls stop their education after reaching puberty. But with NGOs selling low-cost sanitary napkins, attendance seems to be going up. Better days ahead? AMuruganandam remembers visiting a hilltop village in Himachal some years ago. “None of the girls there went to school, one reason being they didn’t have …
Haryana Assembly speaker Kuldeep Sharma on Wednesday said the government will spend Rs 90,000 crore on proposed works during the 12th Five Year Plan. He was addressing the gathering after unfurling the national flag in Gurgaon. Sharma said the amount was 157 per cent more than the Rs 35,000 crore …
The School and Mass Education Department has asked all the schools to follow a uniform water and sanitation norm to ensure a minimum level of services and facilities for the students across the State. Issuing a fresh set of guidelines, the department has maintained that although a national guideline has …
The State government has conceived a plan to help children of parents with HIV/AIDS. The new programme aims to give the children access to financial assistance for education and other expenses till the age of 18, regardless of their economic background. One condition to obtain the benefits, however, is that …
Social enterprises (SEs) have the potential to make India’s spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. Currently, India’s rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate the extreme poverty of nearly half the country’s population that lives below the $1.25 per day poverty line. There are several reasons …
In November and December of 2011, a research team from Yale University, GlobeScan Incorporated, and C-Voter conducted a national survey of 4,031 Indian adults, using a combined urban and rural sample. The study was designed to investigate the current state of public climate change awareness, beliefs, attitudes, policy support, and …
The present Statistical Abstract 2012 is the Sixth in a series brought out by this Directorate on the basis of secondary data sources. The uniqueness of Statistical Abstract is that it contains time series data on various socio-economic parameters and serves as an effective quantitative tool for reaching to logical …
Concerned regarding the rights of children under the age of 6 years, civil society groups have asked the government to focus on a comprehensive approach towards providing a sound foundation for survival, growth, protection, development and early learning under the proposed Early Childhood Care and Education Policy. The proposed ECCE …
We, the Participants of the National Workshop, that assembled under the Chairmanship of Sri P Karunakaran, MP and that was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of the Kerala State, Sri Oommen Chandy and consisted of the People's representatives and leaders, activists and members of social, cultural, health and environmental …
The Annual Plan for Uttar Pradesh for 2012-13 was finalised at Rs.57,800 crore at a meeting here on Wednesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. While the outlay for the current fiscal is 23 per cent higher than the Rs.47,000 crore that was …
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam, which had shown signs of improvement last week, took a turn for the worse on Wednesday following heavy rainfall in some parts of the state in the past 48 hours. Official sources said over 75 villages in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts have been inundated …
More people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Although access to improved sanitation is steadily increasing in India since the year 2000 the pace of change is too slow. If the current trend continues, India will miss the Millennium Development …
Bihar approaches the 12th Plan with a sense of confidence and optimism. During the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12), the economy of Bihar showed a steady growth trend. Growth is typically sustainable, if inter-linkages in the economy are such that growth in one sector pushes growth in the others. Growth …
The first Virtual Proteomics Lab of India has been developed at the IIT Bombay as a part of the "Sakshat" Lab Project, established to develop openly accessible, high-quality educational materials on science and technology. Original Source
Global audit major KPMG has selected Dantewada Education City as one of the 100 urban infrastructure projects in the world. Coming up over 170 acres at Gidam on the Jagdalpur-Bijapur NH-30, the Education City will have around 15 institutes, including an engineering college, an ITI, a sports school, a tribal …
IMPHAL, July 2 – Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh presented the budget estimates for the year 2012-13 in the State Assembly here today. The total receipts during 2012-13 are estimated at Rs 8,232.66 crores, a jump of 30 per cent over 2011-12 of Rs 6,331.79 crore, Ibobi said while …
