After the release of the second phase data of the National Family Health Survey Fifth Round (NFHS-5), media commentators and experts have written that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for India has gone down just below the replacement-level fertility. The TFR for the entire nation was 2.2 in 2015-16, which decreased to 2.0 in 2019-21. According to the United Nations, the replacement-level fertility is reached when the TFR of a...
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Laying out a path for India’s national suicide prevention strategy -Ramya Kannan
-The Hindu Policy paper offering a range of evidence-based solutions for India, which reports the highest number of suicide deaths in the world As India lumbers on with the formulation of its national suicide prevention strategy, in the works for some years now, The Lancet has published a broad and comprehensive policy paper offering a range of evidence-based solutions across sectors to reduce the very high suicide rate in the country. The paper...
More »Deadline to build 2.95 crore rural homes extended to 2024
-The Hindu Cabinet clears ₹2.17 lakh cr. in additional Central and State funding to achieve target Having achieved only 55% of its target, the Centre has extended its deadline to provide pucca houses to all families in rural India by two years, to 2024. In a decision taken by the Cabinet on Wednesday, the flagship rural housing scheme, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin, will be provided ₹2.17 lakh crore in additional Central and State...
More »National Education Policy 2020: Economic growth at the cost of widening inequality -Yogita Suresh
-TheNewsMinute.com The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 seems to favour a model of privatisation and exclusivity that would deeply widen India’s existing inequalities. On August 24, Delhi University witnessed a vehement protest by the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) outside the Vice Chancellor’s office. Inside, the academic council was meeting to reinstate the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) model (which was earlier scrapped in 2013), in accordance with the National Education Policy (NEP)...
More »India 'poor and very unequal' with affluent elite: World Inequality Report -Indivjal Dhasmana
-Business Standard Fruits of economic reforms monopolised by the elite: World Inequality Report The top one per cent of the population in India owns more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 while the bottom half earns just 13.1 per cent, said the World Inequality Report. The economic reforms and liberalization adopted by India have mostly benefited the top one per cent, the latest report for 2022 said. "India stands out...
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