-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 »Free speech Ver.2.0 -Lawrence Liang
-The Hindu With its judgment to strike down a legal provision for violating freedom of speech, the Supreme Court has paved the way for thoughtful jurisprudence in the age of the Internet While describing Sec.124A of the IPC (sedition) as the "prince among the political sections designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen", Mahatma Gandhi offered us an ironic way of thinking about liberty-curbing laws through the metaphor of illegal tyrants....
More »Food Act roll-out hit by patchy data -Sandip Das
-The Financial Express Data from the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 may help states finding it difficult to identify beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act and put their names online, reports Sandip Das in New Delhi. However, given that SECC final numbers, which ranks households based on their socio-economic status, are currently available for only 119 of the country's 640 districts, the Centre's plan to roll out the NFSA...
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