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Even after three years, RTE fails to deliver-Aarti Dhar

-The Hindu On Monday, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, completes three years of its existence - the time frame within which authorities were to ensure that its provisions were fully implemented - to make basic education a legal entitlement to all children aged 6-14. However, official statistics and reports from the field paint a far-from satisfactory picture, with citizens moving court against the competent authority...

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A shocker: Not a single public toilet in whole of rural Delhi-Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

-The Hindu It may be hard to believe, but it is true. Anyone travelling the length of the rural belt of Delhi that stretches from Badarpur border in South-East Delhi all the way to Narela in the northern periphery of the city, will not find a public toilet along the way. The reason being: all these years no one constructed any. And while many believe the rural population knows best how...

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Women constitute only 5.33% of police forces

-PTI The country has just 5.33 per cent women in police forces despite growing demands for more representation in law enforcement agencies. According to Home Ministry statistics, out of 15,85,117 personnel working in state police forces, only 84,479 or just 5.33 per cent are women. Besides, there are just 499 all-women police stations in the country out of a total 15,000 stations. The demand for more women in police forces has been growing since...

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Delhi reels under surge in major crimes since January 1 -Dwaipayan Ghosh

-The Times of India After Nirbhaya's barbaric rape in December last year, thousands of determined Delhiites had taken to the streets demanding a safer city. Barely four months later, Delhi is probably more unsafe than it has been in a long while. According to police statistics, most kinds of crime have risen sharply in the city since January 1 this year. Delhi Police figures, from January 1 to March 24 this...

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2,125 significant ‘others’ on State’s electoral rolls-Bageshree S

-The Hindu   Karnataka tops in transgender voter registration Bangalore: A conscious effort to assert their status as the third gender seems to be growing in the transgender community in Karnataka if numbers are any indication. Karnataka - at 2,125 - has more number of voters registered as ‘others' compared to any other State in the Assembly elections held after 2009. Voters and candidates are enumerated under the categories of ‘male', ‘female' and...

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