Governance And Institutions
'Education for all' prime concern of World Education Forum
'Education for all' is key to the World Education Forum to be held in Dakar, Senegal, from April 26 to 28, 2000. It will attract about 1,000 national and international education policy makers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), business leaders, donors and education workers from 145 countries.
SC committee hears public views on hazardous waste
Gujarat Pollution Control Board should function with total transparency, giving access to all the information that it has to the public, besides asking the new units to show where they plan to dispose hazardous waste, said former ISRO chairman Prof M G K Menon.
Isro chief wants NGOs role in development
The chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) K Kasturirangan has called for the involvement of non-government organisations (NGOs) in the country for rural development in a more scientific way.
Madhya Pradesh opens universal education on net
The Madhya Pradesh government's education guarantee scheme schools have gone online with the launch on Tuesday of a website - www.fundaschool.org - a concept aimed at enabling a global partnership for universal primary education in the new millennium.
India's right to know
Poor people must be the agents of their own development and Aruna Roy has empowered them to claim what is rightfully theirs by exercising theirs by exercising their right to information. 25 years ago, Roy then joined her husband, Bunker, who had set up an agency working on village livelihood …
A global message
Jockin Arputham has been conferred with the 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Foundation Award for International Understanding. He is recognized for extending the lessons of community building in India to Southeast Asia and Africa and helping the urban poor of two continents improve their lives.
More ground to cover
Self-help activities of villages in Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh, cold run into rough weather if the government does not come forward to complement villagers' efforts in a constructive fashion.
M.P. Minister curbing tribal NGO activities
The Shramik Adivasi Sangathan(SAS), which is active among the tribals of Betul district in Madhya Pradesh has launched a frontal attack against the State Minister for Tribal Welfare alleging that he is trying to suppress their activities by describing the voluntary organisation as a naxal outfit.
Sea salt pollution
Researchers have discovered how airborne sea salt particles may be involved in helping to determine the levels of some greenhouse gases as well as air quality in coastal urban areas.
Labour of love to fulfil a dream
Ten kilometres from Manoharpur, Thakurmunda and its adjoining villages have taken up an exemplary project. Starved of irrigation facility, villagers of the area are digging a 20-km canal for a permanent source of irrigation. This is a cent per cent "people's project" with partically no support from the Government.
Clinton launches 'IT kiosk'
Nayala, a hamlet near Jaipur became the first village in Rajasthan to launch a high-tech "information kiosk" with a plan to connect all panchayats in the state through Internet.Visiting US President Bill Clinton dedicated the "Rajnidhi information kiosk" to the state at function at the panchayat office in the village, …
Catalyst removes NOx from automobile exhaust
A new catalyst that efficiently removes nitrogen oxides (NOx) from automobile exhausts has been developed by a research team at Miyazaki University. Because the new catalyst works even when oxygen is present in the gas emissions, it could be used with lean-burn engines, eliminating the need for the more complicated …
Government readies bill to ban human cloning
Once a draft bill to prohibit human-cloning research gets cabinet approval later this month, the governent will submit it to the current session of the Diet for passing into legislation. The proposed bill is in line with actions taken in some other countries to prohibit the cloning of humans, following …
President to visit miracle river
The villagers of the twin villages of Bhanota-Kolyala in Thana Gazi teshil of Alwar district brought the dried up Arvari river in the Aravalli hillocks, back to life. The President of India, Mr. K.R. Narayanan on March 28, would present the Down to Earth-Joseph C. John Award for Excellent Community …
NHDR lauds Bhutan's progress
Life expectancy in Bhutan has gone up to 66 years, literacy rate is 54 precent and the per capita income US $ 594 (1997), according to Bhutan's first National Human Development Report (NHDR) released by the Planning Secretariat.
Informationn Bill permits inspection of records
The Rajasthan Right to Information Bill, passed in the Assembly on Monday, has incorporated some of the amendments suggested by the National campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) by allowing inspection of the accessible records and taking notes and laying down a system of appeal by the aggrieved persons …
Honour for Indian activist
Mr Kailash Satyarthi, Chairperson, Global March Against Chld Labour and member Global campaign for Education was unanimously elected as one of the three NGO-representatives. The representatives will participate in the draft committee for the official Dakar Framework for Action for Education for all by 2015.
Hazare agitation on right to information
Noted social worker Anna Hazare today kicked off his statewide agitation for people's right to information, by taking out a march to the office of Divisional Commissioner Rajiv Agarwal. Over 300 supporters of Hazare from Pune, Ahmednagar, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Solapur districts participated in the March which was organised …
Hazare threatens stir for right to information
Noted social worker and anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare said that after exposing the corrupt practices of bureaucrats and politicians, he planned to target corruption in the judiciary.
Hazare threatens stir
The noted social activist, Anna Hazare, has threatened to launch a state-wide agitation from 31 May if the Maharashtra government failed to enact a law, giving the people "right to information".
