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 …
India's poverty is estimated to have declined to 32 per cent in 2009-10 from 37.2 per cent five years ago, as per preliminary findings of the Planning Commission. The estimates are based on the formula suggested by the Tendulkar Committee for computing the number of poor in the country. "2009-10 …
DIBRUGARH, Although various educational schemes were introduced in the State to attain full-fledged literacy among the upcoming generation, certain loopholes stand on the way of the implementation of the schemes. The schemes have been introduced keeping at par with the country
Chandigarh Districts in Haryana with a higher literacy rate have recorded low child sex ratio and vice versa. This inverse relationship between the literacy rate and child sex ratio has come to the fore in the latest Census figures. The literacy rate of Haryana has increased to 76.64% in 2011 …
The pace at which India’s population is growing is slowing, but not as rapidly as expected; India will become the largest country in the world sooner than earlier forecast. Literacy rates have increased sharply between 2001 and 2011; some of the low performing rates have shown strong improvements, the others …
Research universities are complex institutions with multiple academic and societal roles. They are both national institutions that contribute to culture, technology and society, and international institutions that link to global intellectual and scientific trends. There is widespread recognition of the importance of research universities but many countries do not recognise …
Move suggested to magnify the impact of the Right To Education law among poorer sections Poor families sending their children to school could get a cash incentive based on the attendance of their child. The Planning Commission has taken note of a report that has suggested the measure to magnify …
While mass predilections in Bihar are still veering towards the male child, the Nitish Kumar government will be pleased with the provisional Census 2011 data for the State, which has indicated a 20 per cent jump in the State's female literacy rate. As per the report, literacy rates for women …
As per provisional census 2011 report, women have outnumbered the men with registering ratio more than one thousand against men in four tribal districts of State. It means the women in maximum number legged behind the men folk in these districts. Not only this, literacy rate has also scaled up …
Gautam Budh Nagar has registered all round progress on different fronts during the past 10 years, stated the latest census report. Literacy has jumped from 56.83 per cent in 2001 to 82.2 per cent in 2011. In woman literacy, district tops the state while population in G B Nagar has …
Landlessness & Illiteracy Come With Social Identity, Finds Survey Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: Scheduled Castes and Tribes constitute half of the total
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's literacy rate might have grown exponentially in the last decade to touch 73.45 per cent, almost on par with the National average of 74.04, but the Naxal hotbeds of the State continue to wallow in illiteracy. Literacy rate in the Maoist-infested districts of Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabarangpur still …
MUMBAI: It has been a year since the Right to Education (RTE) Act was implemented nationwide, but there is very little awareness about it. Complaints against any violation of the act can be registered by citizens with the national or state commission for protection of child rights. A right to …
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir is well on path of achieving 100 percent literacy rate as the figures in respect of literacy for Census 2011 have shown an increase of more than 13 percent over the census of 2001. The same has jumped to 68.74 percent from 55 percent from the …
LUCKNOW: Exponential industrial growth and proximity to New Delhi appear to be two major reasons for Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad emerging as UP's two most sought-after districts. According to the provisional population totals of Uttar Pradesh released by the Directorate of Census Operations in UP on Tuesday, both the …
LUCKNOW: After gaining 12 healthy points since the 2001 Census, the literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh moved closer to the national average of 74.04%. The state registered a literacy rate of 69.72% in the 2011 Census. Top performers in the state, which helped in increasing the percentage by several points …
