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 …
President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday stated that innovators at the grassroot level can help provide answers to climate change and called on the government to lay down a National Innovation Policy to usher in the much needed coordination among various initiatives in research, education, agriculture, medicine and business. Addressing the …
Three months after the ambitious Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was passed by the Parliament, the government remains undecided on when to make it effective. The law, passed with a thumping majority on August 4 by the Lok Sabha, has received the Presidential assent but is …
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the nodal grievance redressal authority for implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, will soon set up a special cell to monitor a child
If you thought a school on the premises of a State Raj Bhavan would serve as one of the best examples of the success of implementation of the Government
The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently. The committee has defined the poor based on a normative living standard — it has …
K Subramanya One of the main impediments in the large scale and accelerated deployment of solar energy in the coming years is going to be the lack of qualified human resources if urgent corrective steps are not taken now. Given that the starting base for the solar energy industry in …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi October 19, 2009, 1:38 IST With improved funding patterns and fund utilisation levels, a stock-taking evaluation of the primary education scenario in India reveals that rural India is not far behind urban India. A performance evaluation of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), a government welfare …
Management courses are changing; they are becoming shorter, crisper and much more focused. As several sectors in India flourish, from retail and fashion to finance and risk management, the need for creating a competent manpower with domain knowledge is becoming imperative. Topics which deal with inclusive growth and societal benefits …
Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal (extreme right) inaugurating the Central University at Tiruvarur in the presence of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi THANJAVUR/TIRUVARUR: The future universities of India should be radically different and evolve into centres of excellence to meet global challenges, Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal said …
New Delhi: After the euphoria comes the real test. The cost of implementing the Right to Education Act over the next five years by the Centre and states works out to a whopping Rs 1.78 lakh crore. The new law will come into force from the next academic year and …
I am extremely happy to note that this year, India Today State of the States Conclave has decided to keep agriculture at the top of its agenda. The topic, "Second Green Revolution: What the States Need to Do", is extremely appropriate though I would modify it slightly to read "Second …
It has become an annual confluence of ideas and ideology, a high-powered forum where Union ministers, chief ministers and those in charge of key ministries in strategic states meet to debate the hot-button issues of the day as well as discover the true state of their states. The seventh India …
If statistics are any indicator of India's economic health,we are a country of stunning diversity. Only 5 in 30 states have an urban population of over 50 per cent. These are Delhi, Puducherry, Goa, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu. Among the big states, Punjab, with a yield of 4,017kg per hectare, …
