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 …
Pipariya: Janpad Panchayat president Arti Arjun Paliya today participated in a training programme organised for ASHA, Anganwadi workers and members of self-help groups and Sanjha Chulha programme. The training programme was organised under 'Aao Banaye Madhya Pradesh' (Build Madhya Pradesh Campaign). She said that the main aims of the programme …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Archana Chitnis has urged people's representatives to cooperate in the successful implementation of the Right to Education act that came into force across the country on Thursday. "With the implementation of the act while it has become the constitutional duty of the government to …
Though the Right to Education Act has come into force, the 12-year-old Bashir Ahmad supports his old, frail and blind grandmother by begging for alms at the city market place, as he is unaware of his right to go to school. He is one among over 36,000 children in the …
LUCKNOW: As the nation celebrates the introduction of the historic Right to Education Act, the details of what the Act holds in store for him have still not reached 8-year-old Mohan Tripathi. A resident of Barabanki's Suratganj block, for this bright student, the only joyous piece of news can be …
A group of innova tive young architects from Delhi's School of Planning & Architecture (SPA) have created a wonderfully userfriendly pedestrian map for Garli -India's first heritage village notified by the Himachal Pradesh government in 2002 located about 450 km north of the capital amidst the still picturesque Kangra Valley. …
With a literacy rate of 67.91 per cent and as many as 1.5 lakh children still out of school despite the incentives rolled out by the Haryana government, the implementation of the Right to Education Act is a long way ahead. While the Education Department has its hands full with …
On the day Right to Education became a fundamental right of children, the UP government sought an assistance of Rs 150 crore from the union government to strengthen its primary education structure. In a letter written to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Chief Minister Mayawati said that the UP government …
With the Right to Education Act formally coming into nationwide effect from today, the State Government has embarked on a drive to ensure that every child in the age group of 6 to 14 secures quality education in an enabling environment. Addressing media persons, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said …
The global economic crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries, and is hampering progress toward the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says the Global Monitoring Report 2010: The MDGs after the Crisis. The crisis is having an impact in several key areas of the MDGs, including …
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This report provides a cross-country assessment of poverty and socio-economic indicators for indigenous peoples. It is motivated by a recent study of indigenous peoples in Latin America, which finds high poverty rates among these groups, and little to no improvement in poverty rates over time, and a continued interest in …
In 60 countries in the developing world, more than half of primary schools have no adequate water facilities and nearly two thirds lack adequate sanitation, according to a new report by UNICEF and partners. The report, Raising Clean Hands: Advancing Learning, Health and Participation through WASH in Schools, is a …
Right to education will propel India to greater heights of prosperity and productivity The coming into effect of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 marks a historic moment for the children of India. This Act serves as a building block to ensure that every …
THE much-awaited Right to Education Act 2009 will come into force from Wednesday promising compulsory schooling for all children aged between six and 14 years and mandating that all private unaided schools reserve a quarter of their seats for
Bangalore: The Karnataka government has prepared a proposal to seek Rs. 1,500 crore from the Centre under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), a flagship programme for extending elementary education to children in the age group of 6 to14. The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has called a meeting of …
BHUBANESWAR: Though Orissa has witnessed a drastic change in the physical features of elementary education, many things are yet to be achieved in terms of access and retention of the students in the State-run schools. Though the Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan (SSA) has created some awareness among the children in the …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi March 29, 2010, 0:28 IST With the government resources for flagship schemes being limited, policy makers are exploring measures to enhance outcomes achieved through expenditure in the centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS). The thinking primarily is to create an autonomous Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), enhance auditing systems …
Going by the reduced non-plan expenditure for higher education institutions, increased emphasis on interest subsidy on educational loans, a steep cut in the allocation for the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship scheme, and reliance on public-private partnership modes for setting up of model schools in the Union Budget, it may not be …
