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 …
At ITC, CSR is built into its businesses. ITC is probably unique in that it does not implement its corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a separate foundation or trust. Instead, it has built these initiatives into its business model, by following what it calls the Triple Bottom Line Approach. Its …
L&T; takes its nation-building philosophy quite literally. FOR A COMPANY THAT'S BUILT SOME OF INDIA'S TALLEST STRUCTURES, LONGEST flyovers and largest industrial projects, you can't be blamed for assuming that CSR is just a tiny blip on its extensive, all-encompassing radar. It isn't. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Larsen & …
While the State and the Central Governments are giving special thrust on quality of education, the Goa Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (GSSA) is also playing its part in improving the quality of education at the primary school level.According to the GSSA Director Dr P R Nadkarni, the earlier pattern was just …
AMID much fan fare, the RTI on Wheels was launched at the Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA) here on Monday. The vehicle, conceptualised by the Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pehal (MAGP) is poised to take the Right to Information Act to the common man across the city. Equipped with …
The penultimate year's budget presented by the United Progressive Alliance Government before the 2009 general elections come knocking, has tried to give an even layer of butter to the national bread, including the social sector; health and education included. But, the latter seems to have missed out considering what late …
Public Relations, Culture and Mineral Resources Minister Laxmikant Sharma has said that modern technical know-how must be used for eradicating illiteracy, poverty and hunger from the face of the earth. He said that engineering helps solve problems of real life easily. That is why it has an important role in …
THE Right to Education bill seems to have run into rough weather yet again. Instructions from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh notwithstanding, the government , it seems won't be able to introduce the Right to Education bill, 2008, in Parliament, before it goes into recess on March 20. The delay is …
This paper attempts to define the common people of India in terms of levels of consumption and examines their socio-economic profile in different periods of time since the early 1990s with a view to assessing how the economic growth process has impacted on their lives. The findings should worry everyone. …
Social sciences are vastly neglected in the country. So it's refreshing when a school organizes a history exhibition. The Thanjammal Memorial Elementary School in Tiruchi organized one such exhibition. It covered primary class' syllabi of social sciences. The countless years and wars in history were made easy by pasting chronologically …
For seven years, pensioner Zhang Jingxuan has struggled to keep Zhang Jiuzhou, his 13-year-old grandson, in school, in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. He and his wife earn 800 yuan ($107) a month, from which they have to pay at least 2,000 yuan a year for the tuition …
The education cess is rapidly outstripping the Budget allocations for primary education with the latter getting smaller and smaller each year with the allocation for this year even less than 2004-05 when there was no cess. A comparison with allocations made before the 2 per cent primary education cess was …
Aiming at improving the quality of rural education, OneWorld South Asia, in collaboration with British Telecom and Cisco, has launched a pilot project in West Bengal last week for assisting rural teachers in addressing the needs of the children more effectively through information and communications technology tools. OneWorld South Asia …
Nearly 40 years after the Common School System (CSS) was recommended by the Kothari Commission on education (1964-66), equal, inclusive and free education remains a distant dream even today. To stress on implementation of the CSS and to oppose
THE National Women Development Policy 2004, came under fire of women rights groups and civil society leaders for having done away with some of the equal rights provisions of the 1997 policy guidelines. The women development policy just announced by the interim government is an improved version on that adopted …
The economy is slowing down, foreign investors have turned wary, and there is an election to be won next year. So, will Finance Minister P. Chidambaram script Budget 2008 for votes or growth? .SHALINIS. DAGAR Mr speaker, sir, it is my privilege to present the budget for 2008-09." It's the …
One of the criticisms of the official poverty line is that it does not capture the cost of basic necessities, particularly non-food components such as health and education. This issue gains importance due to an increase in household private expenditure on education and health services in recent years. This article …
Land owners who gave away their lands for SEZ were compensated at the rate of Rs three lakh an acre and family members have been assured jobs on the basis of educational qualifications Around 2,100 acres of land, valued at Rs 63 crore, had been registered for the Special Economic …
Students of class VI will dissect cockroaches and catfish instead of rats, birds and toads during life science experiments. The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education decided to modify the experiments after repeated appeals from the animal rights activists, led by the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta). Peta …
Rs 2.80 a day for fuel makes cooking a challenge Government Primary School, Rukali village, Chhachhrouli, has a total of 14 students. They get Rs 2.80 a day as budget for fuel to cook midday meal whereas cost of cattle dung cake is Rs 1 per cake, firewood is Rs …
