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 …
Bhopal, Apr 9: In a trail-blazing initiative, Reliance Communications, India's foremost truly integrated telecommunications service provider has announced today the launch of an exclusive educational portal on Reliance mobile phones. This unique portal offers a bouquet of useful information on exam results, college admissions, event calendar of exams, admission deadlines, …
Historically, if we wanted to understand what someone's income level was, all we had to do was ask what country they were from. In the future, this will no longer be true. Instead, we'll ask what level of education they have achieved. This is because information and communications technology is …
The Annual Plan for Gujarat for the new fiscal year was on Tuesday pegged at Rs 21,000 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi. The Plan outlay includes an additional Central assistance component of Rs 130 crore …
The annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found gross inefficiency in the functioning of the Delhi government's various departments, including health and technical education. The report has measured the fiscal performance of the city government in terms of key fiscal parameters showing mixed trends, with revenue …
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, in his famous speech at Avadi near Chennai in 1955, spelt out the conditions for inclusive growth. He asked and I ask the same question
Much of what Indian agriculture is today is due to the work of state agriculture universities and deemed agriculture university like the Delhi-based Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI). The work for ushering in green revolution in the country began in 1960s with the support of the US Land Grant Universities …
The report of the National Knowledge Commission on higher education makes several important recommendations, and after due review they should be implemented in a mission mode for a much-needed revolution. The National Knowledge Commission's report on higher education is one in the series that started with the report of the …
After months of politics and bureaucratic wrangling with various state governments, the Union HRD Ministry has finally selected the states which will get new IITs and IIMs. While six new IIMs will be set up in Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand, four new IITs will …
FOR some years now, the Budget speeches of the Finance Minister have been impressive exercises in the art of rhetoric, that is, of verbal persuasion without reference to reality. It has often been the case that the more P. Chidambaram talked about a particular issue in his speech, the less …
It is clear from Budget 2008 that the UPA, instead of abandoning its neoliberal agenda in an election year, has decided to stick to it resolutely. R.V. MOORTHY Finance Minister P. Chidambaram addressing a national conference on the Union Budget organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and …
As many as 42,000 women from rural areas in Delhi, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have learned to read and write. According to the World Bank Development Policy Review 2003, over one third of Indians above sseven years of age are illiterate. This rounds up to over …
A revised scheme which will be targeting girls belonging to the Scheduled Tribe and living in low literacy level districts was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday. The Centre plans to set aside nearly Rs 298.97 crore for the scheme in the Eleventh Five Year …
At 35, when Harpyari first held a pen and wrote her name it was a child-like scrawl. However, with it, she etched a lasting story of empowerment. Married at age five and unschooled, Harpyari now helps her own children with their homework. Harpyari is the end product of a non-governmental …
During the last four and half years, the state government has launched a number of programmes which have benefited every section of society, especially programmes for empowerment of farmers, girls and women, said Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while addressing a district-level conference of Panchas, Sarpanchas and women's self-help groups …
The Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, on Tuesday termed the Delhi Budget presented by Finance Minister A. K. Walia on Monday as a document of announcements alone and not a budget in the real sense. Initiating a discussion in the House on the Budget, he …
Vale, the Brazilian mining group, is building technical schools in Brazil and placing recruitment advertisements overseas, in a further sign of the scarcity of geologists and engineers among the world's miners in recent years as rising commodity prices have driven growth in the sector. Vale plans to spend $59bn on …
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has said that his government is committed for the welfare of needy and poor people and is giving a priority to the development of rural areas. He was speaking at the Youth Convention organised by the Sattari Yuva Morcha at Nanus-Valpoi on Sunday. Speaker Pratapsingh Rane, …
Given its Tata heritage, Tata Motors is a champion of responsible business. Recognising the brand building capabilities of Corporate social responsibility (CSR), Tata Motors formed a CSR Committee in January 2006 comprising the Managing Director Ravi Kant and other senior executives of the company. "Our CSR activities are largely dependent …
Finance minister P. Chidambaram has been observed to be in unusually relaxed and mellow moods, as he worked towards the fifth budget of the upa government, and his seventh overall. Talking to Anupam Goswami, he explains the reasons for confidence in the state of the economy: Mr. Chidambaram, this was …
