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 …
One year in the saddle, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is satisfied with his government's initiatives and is upbeat about the State's prospects for social and economic development What are the biggest achievements of your government? Here, I would like to re-emphasise what I had said when I took over …
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2007/2008 Published by: United Nations Development Programme Pages: 384; Price: Rs595 Twenty years ago, Chico Mendes, the noted Brazilian environmentalist, sacrificed his life defending the destruction of Amazon rainforest by private plunders and companies. Just before he died, Chico spoke of the links between his struggle at …
Nawanshahr, September 22 Complaints regarding the packed midday meal, launched by Punjab Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur on September 16 in Nawanshahr district, have been pouring in almost from day one. Sources reveal that hundreds of schools are missing the delivery of packed food daily in the district. Records of the …
TELECOM AND NETWORK CONNECTIVITY have widely been seen as enablers of a nation's socio-economic growth; a McKinsey study cites that a 10 per cent increase in teledensity contributes to 0.6 per cent of GDP growth. Though urban India is reaping the benefits of the telecom revolution, rural teledensity is still …
AGRICLUTURE Real growth stems from real reforms, not inaction. The success of Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh validates the principle that sustained reforms and investment in health and infrastructure bring investments that create jobs and markets enabling prosperity. This year the State of the States study reviewed the performance of states …
Free education for all up to XII: Raje TIMES NEWS NETWORK Jaipur: Chief minister Vasundhara Raje seems to be pulling out all stops to return to power. On Saturday, she sprung a surprise, announcing free education for all in government schools from October. With Raje
Twinkle twinkle little stars Ashirbad S Raha | TNN Their feet are soiled, hair unkempt but the kids of Government Senior Secondary School in Dundahera area in Gurgaon have found a reason to smile. Slowly colours are filling their lives of otherwise limited means. And the person bringing about this …
Nomads may appear to be living an idyllic and carefree life. Far from that, they suffer serious deprivations. The absence of education for their children is a major problem. The Jammu and Kashmir Government has come up with the novel scheme of mobile schools, reports Ehsan Fazili from Srinagar These …
SKUAST-Jammu organized an awareness-cum-training programme on Vegetable /Seed production at Village Gajansoo, Block Marh in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Agri-Entrepreneur Development Association. The program was attended by 50 progressive vegetable growers from 16 different villages of Marh block. The farmers were advised for cultivation of quality seed of super …
The policy goals of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (education for all) programme focus on access and quality education. Using indicators like access and overcrowding, achievement, mainstreaming, fund utilisation and retention of children, this field survey of municipal schools in Mumbai and Delhi provides a comparative analysis of each city
The Government and the World Bank signed yesterday three loan agreements providing additional financing of US$98 million for the Road Sector Assistance Project; US$43 million for the North East Housing Reconstruction Program; and US$10 million for the Education Sector Development Project, the World Bank said.
the Department of Drinking Water Supply (ddws) on July 20 invited private standalone water purifying companies to showcase latest technologies and equipment. The government wants to install 30,000 water purifying systems in rural schools to provide children with safe drinking water. About 84,000 schools in rural India do not have …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the country would go all out observing the International Literacy Day tomorrow, Orissa literally suffers from a literacy deficiency. The urban-rural divide is sharp with the latter hosting 39 percent illiterate population against 17 percent in the urban agglomerations. The annual status of education report-2007 (ASER-07), in …
Shimla, September 08 On the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of International Literacy Day, Governor Prabha Rau gave out a message to have a focused policy to educate adults under the Continuing Education Campaign. The CEC was the third phase of the Literacy Mission that was launched in the country …
Mohali, September 07 Free land, Rs 2.5 crore for private school The Punjab government has formulated a new scheme to improve the poor state of education in the state. Under this scheme, the state government will provide free land and Rs 2.5 crore as capital investment to open a new …
DH News Service, Mudigere: Taluk Implementation Committee President and MLA Kumaraswwamy has informed that various developmental projects of Rs 356 lakh has been chalked out and has been approved by the Government under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Addressing the reporters, Mr Kumaraswamy said that under the project Rs 98.916 lakhs has …
Child health in war-torn Afghanistan is suffering due to mothers' low educational background and inability to access healthcare. A study found that 32.5 per cent of under-fives are suffering from acute diarrhoea and 41.5 per cent from breathing illnesses, while over 40 per cent have stunted growth.
