World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
NEW DELHI: The State Government has claimed that malnutrition among women and children is much less in Meghalaya than the figures recorded in a national survey. "The survey which was conducted recently might have been conducted at random which also includes non-ICDS areas," Minister for Health and Family Welfare JA Lyngdoh told The Shillong Times on Sunday.
BHUBANESWAR: A grim future awaits the state. The women folk in the State have developed a penchant for tobacco products like betel quid with tobacco and gutkha. In four years, around 5 per cent more women have joined the current tobacco-chewers' fraternity. This affinity for the smokeless tobacco bodes ill for the State, given the influence the mothers have on the children.
Govt orders new survey of dry latrines; to amend existing laws After 61 years of India becoming a Republic, the country has realised that more people than it so far thought could be engaged in the abhorrent practice of manual scavenging. Following this realisation, the government on Wednesday ordered a fresh survey of manual scavengers and dry latrines across the country, besides resolving to
<p> <span id="itro1">This framework note on the draft food security bill released by Sonia Gandhi headed National Advisory Council attempts to build a strong system of grievance redressal for all food-related schemes, to ensure that food entitlements are realised.</span></p>
Issues of gender inequity remain in India and impede the nation's public health and development. Any effort toward universal health care in India must at inception be aligned with the broader goals of improving the status of women and girls in the country, or be destined to fail.
The Women and Child Development Department has spent Rs 984 crore 86 lakh 4 thousand on various activities and programmes in this fiscal year. The amount spent in this fiscal year in first, second and third quarterly phases was utilised in important schemes and programmes.
Encouraging results have been yielded by Janani Express, Janani Sahyogi and Janani Suraksha schemes implemented by the state government with a view to bringing down mother mortality rate (MMR) in Madhya Pradesh. More than 18 lakh women have been benefited by these schemes this year following which MMR has come down to 335 per lakh from 370 per lakh.
<p>The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of these
<p>An Act to regulate the employment of women in certain establishment for certain period before and after child-birth and to provide for maternity benefit and certain other benefits.</p>
<p>Women play a significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields including in the main crop production, livestock production, horticulture, post harvest activities, agro/social forestry, fisheries, etc. This fact has always been taken for granted and also long ignored.