-The Indian Express Rajasthan/ Delhi: Three states where the UPA govt has rolled out direct cash transfers go to polls later this year. On the ground, the scheme has not quite turned out the game-changer the government reckoned it would. A frail Gori Sahaab, 90, instructs his son to pour mustard oil into a tiny diya in his one-room house. He once used a kerosene lamp but has stopped buying that fuel....
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Kerala takes objection to Rajan report
-The Hindu ‘Report goes against the provisions of Constitution' THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will convey to the Centre Kerala's objections to the Raghuram Rajan Committee report on evolving a composite development index of States, during his visit to New Delhi on Friday. The Chief Minister, who left for New Delhi via Bangalore on Thursday, will call on ailing Defence Minister A.K. Antony, hold political discussions with the Congress high command, and meet...
More »Highest Gender gap in employment rates in India: survey -Vidhi Choudhary
-Live Mint Payroll-to-population employment rate for women in South Asia 10% against 36% for men New Delhi: India and other South Asian nations have the world's highest Gender gap in employment rates, according to a survey by Gallup Inc., a US research and consulting services company. The payroll-to-population (P2P) employment rate for women in South Asia is 10% as compared to 36% for men, a deficit of 26 points. Globally, the deficit in...
More »London School of Economics hails Bihar's bicycle policy -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: London School of Economics' Ideas for Growth conference on Monday hailed the Bihar government's 'bicycles-to-girls' policy as one that can be imitated globally. Bihar witnessed a 30% increase in school attendance by girls in just one year, thanks to the bicycles policy. With a high school dropout rate among girls, the state government had rolled out the policy under which every 14-year-old schoolgirl was given money to...
More »It works better in kind-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Launched in 2006 by the JD(U)-BJP government at the time, the scheme provided money to all girls who enrolled in Class IX through their schools to buy themselves a cycle. The first independent, scientific evaluation of the impact of Bihar's cycles-for-girls programme has shown that the scheme significantly improved female school enrolment and substantially reduced the Gender gap in secondary school enrolment. The study, by Karthik Muralidharan, an economist at...
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