-The Hindu The Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana was introduced to provide partial wage compensation during pregnancy, but various issues plague its implementation The latest official figures indicate that India is well short of meeting the Millennium Development Goals that pledged to reduce the country's maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by three quarters and the infant mortality rate (IMR) by two-thirds. The Sample Registration System (SRS), 2013, records MMR at 167 per 1,00,000...
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NITI Aayog plays safe on poverty -Sanjeeb Mukherjee & Indivjal Dhasmana
-Business Standard Not to estimate poverty lines or absolute numbers; will take these from ongoing socio-eco caste census done by states, focus on impact of programmes Taking note of some hard lessons learnt by its predecessor, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog would not estimate either poverty lines or the number of the poor in the country. The erstwhile Planning Commission, replaced by the Aayog, had got into a big controversy...
More »Report Shows Low Enrolment of SC/ST Kids in Primary Level -Ram M Sundaram
-The New Indian Express COIMBATORE: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) annual report (2014) concluded that the enrolment of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in primary level (I-V) has come down in the past three years in the country. The report was prepared by the Ministry based on U-DISE report and national census survey reports. Even though the enrolment of SC and ST students has been increasing at...
More »Number of Delhi citizens enrolled for Aadhaar scheme over 3 million more than city population -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The number of people who have registered for an Aadhaar identification number in the Capital outstrips its population by over 27%, raising questions about the efficacy of the controversial biometric registration process. About 20 million people have enrolled in Delhi for the unique 16-digit number, 27.6% more than the city's population of 16.8 million, according to the 2011 census. Officials associated with the enrollment process, however, said it was...
More »Building on Aadhaar -Bibek Debroy
-The Indian Express As of the first half of March, 786 million of those who are 18 and older have got Aadhaar numbers. The largest absolute numbers are in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. There are two broad channels for Aadhaar enrolment - the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) itself and the Registrar General of India (RGI). For instance, in Lakshadweep, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal,...
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