-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Hundreds of schools in Delhi may be working out of unsafe buildings, endangering the lives of their students, since a structural stability certificate — needed for these institutions to remain functional — comes for as little as Rs 3,000, no questions asked. On hearing that engineers and architects at Tis Hazari court complex were “selling” these certificates, HT decided to test the theory — and found it to...
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Public’s health is at peril, warns National Health Profile
A day before the Prime Minister of India left for a two-nation tour to Ireland and the United States this September, the National Health Profile 2015 was released by the Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri JP Nadda. The report, which has presented a dismal picture of the state of public health, shows that cases of cancer is expected to rise in India by almost 15 percent from 11.5...
More »Number of children studying in English doubles in 5 years -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India Politicians might try hard to push Hindi, but people are voting with their feet, opting to put their children in English-medium schools. While overall enrolment in schools went up by just 7.5% between 2008-09 and 2013-14, and enrolment in Hindi-medium schools went up by about 25%, enrolment in English-medium schools almost doubled in the same period. While the number of English-medium school students is still dwarfed by those in...
More »National Health Profile highlights poor doctor-patient ratio -Rukmini S
-The Hindu India spends less of its GDP on health than some of the world’s poorest countries’ Every government hospital serves an estimated 61,000 people in India, with one bed for every 1833 people, new official data shows. In undivided Andhra Pradesh, every government hospital serves over 3 lakh patients while in Bihar, there is only one bed for every 8800 people. Union Minister for Health J.P. Nadda released the National Health Profile...
More »Working women cause of unemployment, says Chhattisgarh school textbook -Rashmi Drolia
-The Times of India RAIPUR: Amid a union minister recently stoking a row saying that girls wanting a night out is not acceptable in India, BJP ruled Chhattisgarh has went a step further with its class X social science textbook quoting that "working women are one of the causes of unemployment" in the country". A young teacher in tribal Jashpur district in Chhattisgarh has confronted government, questioning the content being served to...
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