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 …
The Centre has sanctioned over 11,000 primary and upper primary schools in Uttar Pradesh under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in pursuance of the notification of the State Right to Free and Compulsory Education Rules issued by the government in July. The sanction for 10,366 primary schools and 1,052 upper …
This study examines the validity of the democracy advantage thesis with reference to India’s states and shows that the impact of democracy on health, in terms of infant mortality rates, is mixed – good to moderate in a number of states but poor in most of the populous states. It …
This yearbook presents current trends and emerging topics in Asia and the Pacific, grouped around the themes of people, the environment, the economy and connectivity. It provides the international and regional community with key indicators, objective analyses of the current trends and emerging issues, along with data and charts. To …
This publication is a compilation of responses from civil society organisations to the Draft Approach Paper to the 12th Five-Year Plan.It presents a detailed critique of the Approach Paper in areas such as education, gender, youth development, land issues, water and sanitation, among others.
The 2011 report continues the tradition of collection of socio-economic statistics from decadal population censuses, annual national sample surveys, adhoc-surveys and administration statistics. This report depicts the socio-economic development of the country through the statistical indicators. This is a combined report for the year 2010 and 2011. The Central Statistics …
This special edition is a supplement to the last report, which was brought out for the year 2009 in the form of a mid-term statistical appraisal of the country situation towards attaining the MDG targets. This supplementary issue attempts to present the sub-national situation in terms of the State-level estimates …
Population impacts many aspects of our lives, including issues as diverse as poverty, health, education, water, and forests. Population matters even more today because historically high numbers of people are intensifying these impacts on our well-being at a time when the demographic picture of the world is becoming increasingly complex. …
India's poverty line finally makes headlines. Do a rapid archival search of newspapers, at least of the past 20 years, and one finds that the poverty line never made it to the front pages. In post television boom, it never featured on prime time. But the past one week has …
India's poverty level will go up by 3.6 per cent in rural areas and 2.9 per cent in urban areas if people's expenditure on health is factored in while measuring poverty. A study by the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi redrew the poverty estimates of 2007 (the Planning Commission …
Poverty is becoming hereditary in India, at least for a sizeable population. That is the conclusion derived from a three-decade tracking of poor households in rural India. A survey by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), an international association of researchers and academicians, claims that those who are chronically poor …
At a time when courts hog headlines, this was a conspicuous slip. About two months ago, the Uttarakhand High Court admitted a public interest petition on making gross environmental productivity a co-indicator of the state of the economy along with the standard gross domestic product (GDP). The media did not …
About 2,300 years ago, Greek astronomer Eratosthenes had tried measuring the circumference of the Earth using shadows thrown by the sun. On Friday, at least 200 school students from nine schools in the Capital will replicate his experiment at the Jantar Mantar heritage monument on the occasion of the autumnal …
The Vikram A SARABHAI COMMUNITY SCIENCE CENTRE, AHMEDABAD WINS THE TOI SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD FOR ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF EDUCATION (NGO CATEGORY) Ahmedabad: On a Friday afternoon Kush Saluja, a Class VII student, carefully dissects a bright pink flower so that he can study pollen under a microscope. …
Himachal Pradesh has demanded Rs 27,556 crore during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-17) from the Planning Commission, almost double of what was approved for the 11th Plan. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal in two-day session with the MLAs invited suggestions for faster and balanced development of the state during …
The World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace …
Beijing: Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that better investment opportunities are available in Madhya Pradesh due to good governance and abundance of resources. Madhya Pradesh is progressing fast on the path of development due to efficient implementation of health, education and public welfare programmes and development projects. …
The size of the State's 12th five year plan (2012-17) is expected to touch Rs two lakh crore - double that of the previous plan - with a thrust on agriculture, education, health and infrastructure. The State’s 11th plan (2007-12) size was pegged by the Planning Commission at Rs 1.01 …
A study to assess the prevalence of intestinal worms in children has thrown up some worrying results. Over 16 per cent of the children in Delhi were found to be infected by worms, in comparison to 14 per cent in Andhra Pradesh. In a joint venture with Deworm the World, …
IMPHAL: As per the provisional report of Census 2011 released by the Directorate of Census Operations Manipur on Monday, the total population of Manipur as on March 1, 2011 is estimated at 2,721,756 out of which 1,639,737 are male and 1,351,992 are female. The provisional report entitled “Census of India, …
New Delhi: CPM general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday said he did not agree with assessments of US officials about his party and leaders as it came out in the latest round of WikiLeaks. “We have to take their observations and interpretations with a pinch of salt. We need not …
