-The Hindu Mumbai: Unsafe abortions are killing a woman every two hours in this country, according to estimates and calculations correlating data on maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and Sample Registration System (SRS) data by Ipas, India, an international NGO working on increasing access to safe abortion services. The last nationwide MMR data giving details of causes of maternal deaths was in SRS 2001-03, said advisor, policy for Ipas India, Medha Gandhi. While...
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RTI activist fights social boycott in Himachal
-IANS TISSA, Himachal Pradesh: When a right to information (RTI) activist in Himachal Pradesh exposed misuse of public funds some years back, he did not expect that his fight for truth would expose him and his family to threats and social boycott. Manjur Mohammed, 26, who hails from remote Naila village in the Muslim-dominated Kalhel panchayat of Tissa block of Chamba district, has been facing the wrath of his fellow villagers....
More »Decline in child sex ratio in rural areas
-The Hindu Hyderabad: Though the child sex ratio (CSR) in the State was 939 (girls for 1,000 boys) against a national average of 919, a disturbing trend was the decline in the ratio in all rural areas and in 21 out of 23 districts as far as urban centres were concerned. Yet, compared to urban areas (935), the CSR was better in rural areas (941), a possible pointer to the prevalence of...
More »Infant, maternal health improving: Survey-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Uttarakhand continues to perform well and Uttar Pradesh poorly on key health indicators as per the findings of the Annual Health Survey (AHS) conducted in 284 districts of nine States. The nine States for which health indicators were released on Friday constitute 50 per cent of the country's population. While Shravasti district of Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) - the number of deaths of children less than...
More »Many a hurdle on RTE path-Skand Shukla
-The Hindu The Right to Education (RTE) Act turned three on March 31, 2013. It is certainly a short period to examine its efficacy, yet it is enough to give us a fair idea of the hurdles that are being faced and have to be tackled to get positive results. Most of these hurdles are attitudinal. The services of retired teachers are mostly sought for imparting "special training" to out-of-school children...
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