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 and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
To protect the land belonging to the tribals in Tamil Nadu the Tamil Nadu state government should expedite the enactment of Land Alienation Acts, the Commission for Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes said.
Nearly 55 per cent of the working children do so in "bad' work places with safe drinking water unavailable and 45 per cent have no access to toilet facilities. Some 40 per cent of these kids work for eight to ten hours a day and 70 per cent have no …
Despite overall progress, per capita comsumptiom in the State of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has grown at only 1.4 per cent per annum in the 1990s. This has been stated by a World Bank report on the challenges of Uttar Pradesh released here on Thursday. The report also noted that many …
The Tamil Nadu Tribals Association ha urged the Union Environment Ministry to withdraw its orders directing eviction of tribals and others living on forestland and instead implement a 1990 decision for regularising tribal settlements on forest land.
Ending months of confusion, the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) again extended the deadline for installing water harvesting structures to March 31, 2003. There were also complaints of the police and local authorities fleecing people before drilling was allowed. Sumita Dasgupta of the Centre for Science and Environment said :'The …
The number of deprived urban children is alarmingly increasing in Assam and they are the victims of the kind of development the society foster and the socio-economic structure unfolding. The deprived urban children include children who are working in establishments, domestic labourers as well as those involved in activities like …
Delhi will get 1,000 new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses in the next six months. Of these, 170 buses will start plying by December 15. With this, the strength of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus fleet will go up to 3,141 and the corporation will become the single largest CNG …
Oil minister Ram Naik will meet the excise and sugarcane ministers from nine sugarcane-growing states. The agenda is to smoothen the bumps in the way to start commercial sales of gasohol -petrol laced with 5 per cent ethanol in these states from January 1.
Nine time national award wining filmmaker Anu Malhotra has finished making another unique film on the indigenous Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, documenting their ritualistic sacrifice, the time honoured tribal council in session, a traditional wedding, customary funeral and burial ceremonies.
The Kerala Government's ambitious tribal land distribution project under the Tribal Resettlement Development Mission has run into rough weather. The Union Environment and Forest Ministry has refused to clear the project proposals submitted by the state.
During the last two decades of the previous century, the magnitude of forced population displacements caused by development programs was on the order of 10 million people each year, or some 200 million people globally during that period. Thus, by their frequency, size, ad the dire consequences, development-cased displacements have …
India and China are among the 31 countries where people do not have adequate access to safe drinking water, a major cause of waterborne diseases, according to a report. The report 'Safe drinking water', brought out by the Third World Academy of Sciences, says the people inmost parts of Asia …
The problem of child labour has assumed alarming proportions. To tackle this social evil the Rotary Club Amritsar South in collaboration with the Government of India has taken the initiative to raise the level of education of these children so that they can be absorbed into the mainstream. To motivate …
A pilot project has been taken up to eliminate child labour in Andhra Pradesh which has the dubious distinction of being ranked first in the practice of this social evil, Mr. N M Adyanthaya, Member of the ILO governing body representing workers' organizations from India, has said. It has been …
Shri Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank Limited, an undertaking of Self Employed Women's Association, has announced the launch of Sewa Bank Pension Scheme, the first of its kind in the country. The scheme is for women workers in the informal sector. The scheme has been designed on a contributory basis. Sewa …
The Andhra Pradesh government is planning to set up 10 residential bridge schools and 60 non residential schools to eliminate child labour in the Hyderabad city said Hyderabad district collector Rajeshwar Tiwari.
Children in Punjab are better off than their counterparts in the rest of the country, while their women are worse off, according to the draft of Punjab Human Development Report, 2001. The report that will be finalised on Thursday said the state has the second highest Human Development Index (HDI) …
A Master Plan on universal child development in on anvil. The plan, which will see participation of 40 counties, will contain details of strategies and actin plans for the overall development of children world over.
SIZE: More than 3.4 million industries EMPLOYMENT: More than 19.2 million people - 86% of employment in the manufacturing sector. Ranks next to agriculture in employment generation in the country BACKBONE: Accounts for 95% of industrial units in the country and 40% per cent of industrial output WORTH: About Rs …
This tribal area barely 12 kilometers from Mungawali sub-division has no electricity connections even after 55 years of independence, something contrary to Madhya Pradesh state government's claims as to the electrification in the state. Tribals here are living under the abject poverty. They don't have enough money to buy fuel …
