-The New Indian Express BALASORE: At Gudugudia anganwadi centre, eggs are hardly given in the lunch to children flouting new guidelines of the Government that egg curry must be served to the students in the age group of three to six years thrice a week. In case of pregnant and lactating women, eggs are served once in two months. There is no permanent anganwadi worker in the centre since October, 2013....
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Sulabh builds 108 toilets in Badaun village
-The Hindustan Times Lucknow: Women in Katra Sahadatgunj village of Badaun district will no longer have to wait for darkness to attend the call of nature in the open. Low-cost sanitation NGO Sulabh International on Sunday dedicated 108 toilets built in the village - which has a population of 4,000 people. After the alleged rape and gruesome murder of two sisters who had gone out at night to attend the call of nature,...
More »How Crime Data Contradicts Communal Spin to UP Rape Cases -Niha Masih and Sreenivasan Jain
-NDTV Meerut (Uttar Pradesh): The BJP's new rhetoric focusing on a communal twist to crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh is not borne out by cold facts. Data accessed by NDTV shows that in western Uttar Pradesh, where vociferous campaigns have highlighted the alleged abuse of Hindu women by Muslim men, women have been assaulted by men from their own community in most rape cases this year. On Sunday, we had reported...
More »‘Tall’ toilet plan raises brows -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has tall plans of making India open defecation-free by 2019 and has asked states to ensure toilets for all, but sanitation experts are sceptical whether so much can be done in five years. Pankaj Jain, the drinking water and sanitation secretary, has written to chief secretaries of all states that the Modi regime is committed to ringing in a "Swachh Bharat" by 2019, which marks...
More »Left behind at 135 -Amarjeet Sinha
-The Indian Express India needs a national effort to speed up human development. That India was ranked 135 out of 187 countries on UNDP's human development index is perhaps the greatest concern for a nation with global ambition. In order to sustain our growth momentum and translate the gains of growth into wellbeing at a faster pace, India needs to rejig its strategy for accelerated human development. The performance in education and health...
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