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 …
AHMEDABAD: The state's literacy rate saw a 10.17% growth. However, the bad news is that Gujarat's standing in the national scenario dropped by two ranks to 18. The provisional census data released on Thursday revealed that in the state there were 79.31% literates in the state, which is higher than …
For the first time ever, the number of people made literate in India is more than the number added to its population. Consequently, there has been a net decline of over 31 million in the total number of illiterates in the country. That is one of many heartening figures that …
Census 2011 counted five million children fewer than Census 2001. The drop in the 0-6 age group from 163.8 million to 158.8 million marks a negative growth of 3.08 per cent, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner C Chandramouli said while releasing the report. The number of boys has …
Rise of 181 million in 10 years; decline in child sex ratio. India's population has jumped to 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million during 2001-11, according to provisional data of Census 2011 released on Thursday. Though the population is almost equal to the combined population of the …
After taking advantage of the various accomplishments of the state to rake up praise for themselves, ministers should now hide their faces in shame. Provisional population figures of Census 2011 reveal Maharashtra
Two-thirds of developing countries are on track or close to meeting key targets for tackling extreme poverty and hunger. This year’s Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs by the World Bank delves into country performance and reveals a diverse, and often hopeful, picture. For example, …
India Corruption Study (ICS) 2010 is the seventh edition of studies undertaken by CMS since 2000 and fourth in the last five years. The purpose of this and earlier rounds has been to provide a reliable tool for improving governance.
The poverty status of all 4,198 households resident in 18 villages of Rajasthan, India, was examined at four points of time between 1977 and 2010 using a retrospective methodology known as Stages of Progress. Households that were consistently poor at all four points spanning a period of 33 years were …
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who hit the campaign trail on Sunday evening with a road show at Behala in Kolkata, said that if voted to power, the party will give priority to industry, health, education and administrative reforms in the first 200 days of the government.
The meagre allocations for critical social sector programmes point to a focus on growth for growth's sake, whose consequences can be unsettling. TERMINOLOGY tells us a lot about underlying economic ideologies. In India, increasingly, public spending that affects the basic conditions of life of the vast majority of the population …
Economic Survey 2010-11 presents the annual restatement of neoliberal faith, embellished with elegant but highly superficial arguments. THE Finance Ministry's annual survey of the Indian economy, Economic Survey 2010-11, provides a great deal of interesting official data on many facets of the performance of the Indian economy, both in 2010-11 …
They can harvest rainwater and use it for watering plants Namakkal: District Forest Officer (DFO) Ashish Kumar Srivastava expressed confidence that educational institutions of this district could play a major role in increasing the district's green cover. Speaking at the World Forestry Day celebration organised at a private college here …
Under the Sarvasiksha Abhiyan Year 2011-12, 831, new schools will be opened and additional 19,993 class rooms will be constructed. Among the new school buildings, 319 new buildings for primary school and 512 middle schools are included. As part of Rights to Education Act, 11,630 middle schools are proposed. Similarly, …
There is a good deal of ill-informed enthusiasm about “conditional cash transfers” (CCT) among Indian policy makers, based on a superficial understanding of the Latin American experience. In Mexico, Brazil, and other pioneers of this approach, conditional cash transfers were developed to bring a fringe of poor households into the …
IN FEBRUARY 2008, the Delhi government had promised 25 mobile schools under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), which would run across the length and breadth of the Capital. The project was meant to bring out-of-school children
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan & National Rural Health Mission have got an increase of 24% and 20 %, respectively, in their allocations for 2011-12 The unspent funds in government
