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 …
The mid-day meal programme was initiated as a means of achieving universal primary education of satisfactory quality for all schoolchildren below the age of 14 by increasing enrolment, improving attendance and retention, and simultaneously improving nutritional status. This paper attempts to investigate some of these aspects based on primary data …
Interview with M. Angamuthu, Deputy Commissioner, Karbi Anglong. A woman seeking information at the Deputy Commissioner's office in Diphu. Karbi Anglong is the first district in north-eastern India to get ISO 9001:2000 certification. When he took over as the Deputy Commissioner of Central Assam's Karbi Anglong district in September 2006, …
Children in Lalmonirhat char areas are being deprived of education as their parents have sent them to income generating works for earning their livelihood. Utter poverty has forced most of the parents in the char areas to send their children to work for earning livelihood, local people said. Besides, many …
MANOJ PANT THIS month I would like to continue with an issue I have devoted a lot of space to in these columns: the role of education in economic development. Commentators often concentrate on more
Of the 152 developing countries, 57 will not reach the millennium development goal of putting all primary-aged children in school by 2015, the latest global monitoring reports of Education for All (EFA) and International Labour Organization (ILO) has said. Incidentally, June 12 was observed as
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) South Asia's Education for All (EFA) mid-term policy review conference kicked off in Kathmandu Monday. The four-day conference will review existing policies, identify policy gaps and devise policies and action plans to achieve the EFA goals. Speaking at the inaugural function, director …
22 kids admitted to prestigious private schools Home-based education provided to 102 children An inclusive education programme launched for mentally-challenged children under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in Kota district of Rajasthan three years ago has started showing positive results by creating a favourable atmosphere, inculcating confidence among the children and …
Many aspects of the Indian scientific development are extremely unsatisfactory, lacking in both quality and quantity. Although the outreach of teaching and research programmes has increased considerably, populist political themes are favoured and special institutions have been created where research is undertaken independent of the university system. This article reviews …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that development of those sections of society is most important which are considered most backward and deprived. In comparison to well off section, it is masses and specially SC, ST and poor sections of society who need government's help more. This is why …
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday claimed that his government was fast implementing its promise to expand education to the remote areas and let the youth benefit from institutions of higher education at their doorsteps. He said both at school and higher education level the State had witnessed unprecedented …
Bring National Average Of Out-Of-School Kids Down From 76L To 45L Bihar and West Bengal, always the subject of ridicule among policy planners, have created a record of sorts by contributing the maximum in bringing down the national figure of out-ofschool children in the agegroup of 6-14 from 75.97 lakh …
Dist one of most educationally backward regions in country with literacy rates as low as 1.76 pc The Haryana government has chalked out a programme to check the drop-out rate and improve educational level in Mewat district, one of the most educationally backward regions in the country. The overall literacy …
This document presents a simple approach to elaborate a scenario regarding the potential impacts of a tsunami in a city exposed to such a hazard. The approach has been tailored to span eleven typical development sectorswhich are present in every city such as health,education,housing, life-lines, transportation, telecommunications, industry, government, etc.
Employment generation initiatives like food-for-work programme seem to have had a positive impact. The fifth Economic Census report, released on Thursday, said there has been a decent increase of 2.78% in the rate of employment generation in the country during 1998-2005, as compared to the rate of 1.75% during 1990-98. …
