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 …
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. …
CROSSING OVER: A little girl in Rajasthan goes to a state school supported by Mahindra & Mahindra Every year, the 100-year old Tata Steel trains batches of 10-15 unskilled women to operate cranes, earth movers and blast furnaces at its Jamshedpur plant. Eschewing cleaning, sweeping and odd jobs, the women, …
Hospet, a small town around 350 km from Bangalore, is perennially cloaked in a red dust that emanates from the scores of pit iron ore mines that dot the area. According to numerous watchdog groups, such as
GOING HYBRID: The Mahindra group will launch a mild hybrid version of the Scorpio later this year. The full hybrid will come later At the Auto Expo 2008 in Delhi this February, Mumbai-based auto major Mahindra & Mahindra's (M&M;) managing director Anand Mahindra gave it a new name
HIGH ON ASH: NTPC's coal-fired plants produce 40,000 MT of fly ash a day, all of which is recycled as building materal (Pic by Tribhuwan Sharma) Our village, Rani Bari, was relocated twice to make way for two different phases of NTPC's power projects,' says Tej Pratap Mishra, a 45-year-old …
Key points from the PM's detailed document listing the administrative and legislative measures taken to implement the NCMP. ...... | e-mail | one page format | feedback: send - read | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assessment of his government's implementation of the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) is not a …
The Manmohan Method * The PM is low-key but meticulous in understanding and implementing policy * He has monitored the NCMP on a monthly basis. The task was given to three IAS officers in the PMO. * Assessment of a political manifesto's implementation is unprecedented. * He has quietly pushed …
He sits in Vigyan Bhavan in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. The secretary sits in Krishi Bhavan; the additional secretary in Sardar Patel Bhavan and the joint secretary in Samrat Hotel. You could say the Panchayati Raj is homeless without an address in India
It's a battle of the bulge in major cities of Uttar Pradesh. Be it Agra, or the more sedate towns of Aligarh and Meerut, the Manchester of the East Kanpur or pilgrims' delight Varanasi and Allahabad or the industrialised hub of the state, Ghaziabad-it has spread everywhere. The mounting pressure …
The Directorate of Open and Distance Learning of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, is currently offering twenty one certificate courses for the benefit of farmers, entrepreneurs and self-help groups. Course details Giving details on the several courses being offered, Dr. G. Selvaraj, Director, said the courses were in …
Not for all a run assumes significance, but for the tribal students of Parijat Academy located at Pamohi, Deepor Beel who have started realising the importance of education, a forthcoming run is turning out to be the most looked forward event of their academic calendar. The marathon run scheduled on …
