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 …
On November 10 more than 70 websites in the UK defied police rulings to issue guidance to student protesters on avoiding arrest. The protests that began in early November against a hike in university tuition fees have been described by the media as the country’s most intensive student upsurge in …
Aarti Dhar JAIPUR: Rajasthan is racing against time to get rid of the tag of a State with poor human development indicators. At least as far as the school education is concerned, the efforts are dedicated and results expected to be positive. Keen on implementing the Right of Children to …
The future of nearly 12 lakhs out of school children is set to be transformed in Rajasthan. The success story of child tracking system by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) under the State Department of Education, is drawing thousands of children from cattle grazing fields, out of homes and labour sites …
It's a forum where new parameters for leadership are calibrated as governance comes up for scrutiny. The Eighth India Today State of the States Conclave featured eight chief ministers, one deputy chief minister and three state ministers. They came to debate-and celebrate-critical development issues. (From Left) Sushil Kumar Modi, V.S.Achuthanandan, …
Although Nitish Kumar's victory in the Bihar assembly elections reflects a positive response to the development track record and the restoration of law and order in the last five years, the uneven distribution of benefits from public investment and development initiatives at the village level flows from the existing socio-economic …
Mizoram is exerting maximum effort to overtake Kerala in the literacy rate. The only worry for the Government of Mizoram is in the southern Mizoram area which has a sizable number of illiterate persons. The Mizoram School Education Department and Mizoram SSA Mission revealed that the number of illiterates is …
The Mid-day Meal Programme (MDMP) is, as the name implies, a programme to provide meals in schools which is an initiative of the Government of India and the state governments. This programme is an effort to lessen the miseries of young India, to ease its pains, to encourage in a …
There is no doubt US President Barack Obama was in India on a business trip. His recent electoral losses weighed heavily with him when he stitched up deals, reportedly worth US $10 billion,that would create about 50,000 jobs back home. In this editorial Sunita Narain looks at the ABCDE of …
JAMMU, Nov 29: Former Education Minister and working chairman of the National Panthers Party (NPP) Harshdev Singh (MLA), has strongly criticized the State Government for its alleged farcical and ridiculous claims regarding performance in Health, NREGA and Education sectors. In a press statement issued here today, the NPP legislator alleged …
There is no doubt US President Barack Obama was in India on a business trip. His recent electoral losses weighed heavily with him when he stitched up deals, reportedly worth US $10 billion, that would create about 50,000 jobs back home. His visit and the sweetener of support for India’s …
Guwahati, Nov. 28: Four popular mobile theatre groups are spreading messages of the Assam Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) all across the state. From differently-abled students to dropout children, child workers to students at tea gardens, the SSA covers a host of issues through its various schemes. These schemes constitute the …
Rankings are no pyramid; they are a ladder and there's room for only one at each rung. A historical advantage in infrastructure and its fields of gold may have kept Punjab on the top rung of the India Today State of the States study for long but Himachal has broken …
If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents' reply to specific questions. This route, however, presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Typically, that doesn't happen. Respondents know about states they operate in …
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will help conserve the endangered eastern swamp deer, found only in Kaziranga National Park, and considered more vulnerable than the rhino. With a population of only about 600
The use of rare and endangered species in science laboratories at most schools will henceforth be prohibited. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked all affiliated schools to discontinue the use of rare species, dead or alive, in their science laboratories. After receiving a complaint from the director …
Economists who study poverty are broadly of two types. Those who deal in abstract models, slotting the poor below one poverty line or the other, and those who try to demystify the term “poverty”. Rehman Sobhan belongs to the latter. The title of his latest book, Challenging the Injustice of …
The UP government clarified today that it was not on collision course with the Centre over implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS). Instead it has thrashed out a new strategy to benefit 10 lakh families of the most deprived sections by giving them employment of 100 …
Lafarge India Pvt Ltd, which is planning to set up a cement plant at Nongkhlieh in Jaintia hills, today said the company was fully committed to environment protection and compliance with other statutory regulations. The statement comes in the wake of recent protests by the people living in the proposed …
