-IPS News TIKAMGARH: Eighty-year-old Chenabai Kushwaha sits on a charpoy under a neem tree in the village of Chitawar, located in the Tikamgarh district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, staring intently at a dictaphone. “Please sing a song for us,” urges the woman holding the voice recorder. Kushwaha obliges with a melancholy tune about an eight-year-old girl begging her father not to give her away in marriage. The melody melts...
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Over 8,000 Children Working in Delhi Garment Factories: Report
-Outlook New Delhi: Over 8,000 children are working in garment factories in different parts of the national capital, an NGO report has revealed. The report, titled 'The Hidden Workforce', by NGO Save The Children, was today released by Delhi Minister for Women and Child Development Sandeep Kumar. According to the report, over 8,000 children are engaged in the booming garment industry and up to 70 per cent of them could be girls. The highest...
More »Varun Gauri, Senior Economist, Development Research Group at the World Bank, interviewed by Anjuli Bhargava
-Business Standard The World Bank's latest report "Mind, Society and Behaviour" calls for re-designing development policy based on a more realistic understanding of how human beings think and behave. The lead author of the report, Varun Gauri, was in New Delhi and spoke to Anjuli Bhargava on the thinking behind the report and what India can do with it. Edited excerpts: * Right from the cover design to the title, this report...
More »‘Delhi most uncaring for the old among metros’ -Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Parents spend their lifetime caring for children, but how are they cared for on getting old? A multi-city survey on perception of the youth about elderly abuse and care reveals that while 73% of working adults accept the problem few are willing to act. Delhi fares the worst with 92% youth not willing to act followed by Chennai (64%), Hyderabad (45%), Ahmedabad (41%), Bengaluru (37%) and...
More »Nutrition scientists: unsung heroes and their role in Swasth Bharat -D Balasubramanian
-The Hindu The National Nutrition Monitoring Board (NNMB), set up in 1972, has been doing silent, and remarkable service to the nation. We tend to look at a nation’s progress increasingly, and almost exclusively, in terms of its economic and business statistics. India is now invited to the high table as a growing economy, with its annual financial growth rate of over 4 per cent. Internally too, we have setup many mechanisms,...
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