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 …
Solving the predicaments facing women is a crucial development objective. But it is also a neglected instrument for health. Women and girls make up 60% of the world's poorest people and two-thirds of the world's illiterate people. Yet, with education and empowerment, they can lead healthy lives, lift themselves and …
This report highlights a number of successes, while also assessing the human impact of lack of adequate progress on many of the millennium development goals. Shows that the goals are achievable when nationally owned development strategies and policies are supported by international development partners. The economic crisis took a heavy …
Global climate models predict a rise in extreme weather in the next century. To better understand future interactions among adaptation costs, socioeconomic development, and climate change in developing countries, observed losses of life from floods and droughts during 1960
NARAYAN BARETH JAIPUR The Vardhman Mahaveer Open University (VMOU) in Kota is all set to launch a six-month certificate course on MGNREGA that is touted to be the world's biggest employment providing scheme. "We have made all preparations to launch the course from July 2010, says the VMOU vice-chancellor Naresh …
The Planning Commission has approved the annual plan of Rs 42000 crore for the Uttar Pradesh for the year 2010-11. However this could not satisfy the state government as it has alleged that in comparison with the other states the Central Government was not providing expected share to Uttar Pradesh …
BHUBANESWAR: Industries Minister Raghunath Mohanty today called upon the industries and investors in the State to come up with individual master plans for peripheral development within a radius of 50 km of their units. Each business entity should formulate a CSR policy which should be an integral part of overall …
JORHAT, May 16: Though Parliament makes education one of the fundamental rights, there are many who fail to realize significance of education. Lakhs of people are there in the State who, due to reasons like poverty or child labour, fail to appreciate the greater needs of primary education for their …
The Indian government is adopting a rights-based approach and converting the Directive Principles into Fundamental Rights, which are enforceable in the court of law. That is why we have seen a plethora of rights-based laws recently-right to education, right to employment, right to forest, right to information and now, right …
A document of the education department in the Australian state of Queen-sland suggests the use of rocks and leaves to bring an aboriginal perspective to maths lessons. The maths plan, available online, also recommends exploring patterns and symbols as well as using timelines that include the history of Australia’s aboriginals. …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa universities have been asked to fan out to remote pockets and adopt more number of tribal villages where campaigns against high dropout could be launched under the Project Gyanlok. At the Vice-Chancellors (VC) Conference here, Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare called for intensified activities by the universities to take …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government is all set to launch a new child-tracking system under which every child born in the state will have a unique identification number. What
KOLKATA, 3 MAY: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will set up a study centre at the Alipore Correctional Home this year where courses on human rights, Bachelor Training Programme and others will be offered at to inmates. According to IGNOU officials, the total number of inmates who have enrolled …
Recent report on the status of food and welfare schemes that are being monitored by the Supreme Court of India under the Right to Food case (no. 196 of 2001). It shows what is missing, what is moving & what has to be done and where in various state welfare …
Amid growing concerns over the impact of the economic downturn, the International Labour Office (ILO) warned in a new study called 'Accelerating action against Child Labour' that efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour are slowing down and called for a
THE Madras High Court has upheld the power of the TN government to bring in the Uniform System of School Education Act, 2010. Accepting the elaborate argu ments of Additional Advocate General P Wilson, a division bench comprising Justice Prabha Sride van and Justice PPS Janarthana Raja, upheld the powers …
