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 …
Vandana Gombar / New Delhi July 18, 2009, 1:22 IST Govt plans to capture scheme-wise and state-wise actual Plan expenditure. Here is a one announcement that is likely to be a part of the finance minister
The World Bank has expressed interest in supporting the newly launched Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) scheme for improvement of quality of secondary education in the country. The Ministry of HRD has agreed to the proposal of the World Bank and has written to Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) for …
Children in 6-14 age group to be enrolled in govt schools Acting Deputy Commissioner Mandeep Singh Brar has devised a scheme to enroll in government schools all those children of the district who are currently not attending any school. Talking to The Tribune here today, he said he had asked …
A nano technology-based solar cell development centre is coming up in the city with the aim to make solar power more affordable. The centre is being set up by the West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation Limited in association with the Washington DC-based Catholic University. Calcutta University (CU) and the …
Their friendship with the animal world began on Friday with understanding the behaviour and habitat of different species of primates at the State Zoo here. This opportunity for knowing about the animal world came to the young school going boys and girls as a gift from the zoo authorities who …
Indian universities are likely to find themselves under a new oversight body, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal announced last week. Physicist Yash Pal led the committee that recommended setting up a six-member National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) to reform higher education. The commission would replace nearly …
This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production. The empirical results show that accumulation of biological human capital prior to a disaster helps children maintain investments during the post-disaster period. Biological human capital formed in early childhood …
DHENKANAL: The Total Sanitation Campaign has received lukewarm response in Dhenkanal since its inception in 2005 despite availability of funds and infrastructure. So far, only 23 per cent of the district has been covered under the Campaign
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat has dropped a notch in the national rankings of the Educational Development Index (EDI), largely because of the high dropout rates in classes VII and VIII . The state held the seventh rank in the index a decade ago but has now dropped to eighth. This has come …
Despite an accentuation of consumption inequality in recent years in Kerala, development in the social sector has been more or less equitable across districts. Kerala
This paper analyses the intra-state disparities in government expenditure in six states, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, based on the actual treasury data on government expenditure made in the social sectors of education, health and supply of drinking water, captured from the databases of the …
While inequality in per capita state domestic product in India tends to increase, state-level indicators of human development show decreasing dispersion for the obvious reason that the standard outcome indicators of health or education have natural upper limits. Does it mean that instead of worrying about disparity in social indicators …
AHMEDABAD: The student teacher ratio in higher education in Gujarat is among the worst in the country. This is amply highlighted in a recent study conducted by professor Rakesh Basant of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). The data used in the study reveals that Gujarat has the second lowest …
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: The educational activities of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) are soon going to be extended to juvenile homes in the State. Under the
Bharat Nirman Mahiti Andolana, a programme to create awareness about the government programmes will be held in Gauribidnur from August 1 to 5. Addressing the meeting of various department
