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 …
Nali Kali programme has been successfully implemented in the district, said Public Education Department Deputy Director Prahalad Gowda. He was speaking at the interaction programme organised for the district level resource persons, here recently. The learning levels of the children in all the 1,722 nalikali schools in the district is …
The Liveability Index 2010 is a methodical index of quality of living conditions in Indian cities. The report is brought-out after a comprehensive study on 37 cities, ranked on the basis of eight pillars like demographics, education, health & medical standards, safety, housing, socio-cultural political environment, economic environment and natural …
Using cross-country data, the major thrust of this study is to establish the existence of a nonlinear relationship between environmental performance and ethnic diversity, while controlling for factors known to affect a country
The publication "Statistical abstract of Gujarat state 2009" attempts to present latest available statistical data in the formats as recommended by the working group appointed by the Central Statistical Organisation, Government of India. The statistical abstract which includes state and district level data on various developmental indicators arranged with sectoral …
Much of the discussion on the Right to Education Act, 2009 has ignored the point that the passage of such a law actually missed an excellent opportunity to address the systematic and fundamental problems of school education in India.
Mining giant Vedanta’s proposed university in Orissa will not only be one of the few in the world with an outlay of Rs 15,000 crore and spread across 2,400 hectares, it will also sit on land rich in thorium deposits. Politicians and activists have been questioning the need for so …
BHUBANESWAR: The 13th Finance Commission (TFC) has recommended a grant of Rs 78,974.9 crore for the State for the award period from 2010 to 2015. The grant has increased substantially compared to the 12th Finance Commission, which recommended Rs 36,942.8 crore for Orissa. However, the percentage share of Orissa in …
HRD ministry and states can be happy as 13th Finance Commission has been the most generous for elementary education, allocating Rs 24,068 crore for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to all the states for the next five years. It has also fully accepted the demand for grants made by the HRD ministry. …
The financial year gone by saw the strengthening of several initiatives to help cushion the impact of global slowdown on the more vulnerable population. The Economic Survey said the gap between the health and education indices of India and those in the developed world, and even with those in many …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to provide pre-school kits to children in the anganwadi centres to attract them to schools. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting presided over by Women and Child Development Minister Pramila Mallik at the Secretariat here today. Children in the age …
The district human development report of North 24 Parganas portrays the diverse features of this district and also depicts the multilayered development that has taken place, over the past five to six decades. Burgeoning urbanisation and very presence of the Sunderbans open up a rare opportunity to the policy makers …
After inadequate rains and reduced harvest last year, the Central Government wants to do all it can to prevent further damage. The All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology (AICRPAM), an institute funded by the Centre, will prepare farmers in its four centres in Maharashtra--Akola, Parbhani, Dapoli and Solapur--to prepare …
Canadian city of Vancouver has been named as the world's most livable city, while Delhi and Mumbai are being placed at 113th and 117th position, respectively, in an annual survey of livability that assesses living conditions in 140 global cities. The survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), listed …
CHANDIGARH: The Union Government has sanctioned Rs. 109.53 crore under Saakshar Bharat Mission-2012 to improve the literacy rate in Haryana, said State Education and Health Minister Geeta Bhukkal on Tuesday. She said 10 districts with 50 per cent adult female literacy or below would be covered initially. The districts are …
Number To Cost Rs 200 Per Person Akshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi: HRD ministry has decided to take the help of Unique Identity number project to carry out educational reforms. Foremost among its goal is to use UID to bring the over 80 lakh
After the Educational Development Index (EDI) showed Delhi had slipped from its fourth rank to the eighth place in elementary education, the state is considering taking up the matter with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and National University of Educational Planning and Administration, officials said. According to the report …
This article links databases on household consumption, industrial production, economic turnover, employment, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions into a spatially explicit model. The causal sequence starts with households demanding a certain consumer basket. This demand requires production in a complex supply-chain network of interdependent industry sectors. Even though the …
In this article the authors apply geodemographic consumer segmentation data in an input?output framework to understand the direct and indirect carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with consumer behavior of different lifestyles in the United Kingdom.
Include private schools in SSA, other schemes While the human resources development ministry is currently focused on weeding out poor-quality private education providers in the higher education space, a very different picture obtains as far as primary and secondary education is concerned. At a time when the government is almost …
