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 …
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 …
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 …
