-CaravanMagazine.in In December 2019, M Venkaiah Naidu, the vice president, on behalf of the union ministry of social justice and empowerment, presented the Uttar Pradesh government the National Award of Excellence for doing a “commendable” job in the field of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. The state received a total of three awards for doing “excellent” work for people with disabilities. In contrast, the response to a right to information application...
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Firing a warning shot across big tech’s bows -Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Lawsuits and regulatory moves in the West suggest that their easy, unchecked expansion may be coming to an end It was a long time coming, but the day of reckoning for the big digital companies may finally have arrived. Despite the growing monopoly power of big tech and their use of anti-competitive practices, earlier attempts to regulate them (such as an attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1998...
More »Rise in teenage pregnancy, higher anaemia rate in women: NFHS-5 phase data
-The Hindu It indicates an increase in average out of pocket expenditure (OOPE) per delivery in public health facilities in some States. The 5th National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5) data for 17 States and 5 Union Territories released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has indicated a stark disparity in access to the Internet by men, in contrast to women in a number of States. In Karnataka and Bihar, for...
More »Gender violence drops, but prevalence remains high in bigger States: NFHS-5 -Abhijit Kaur, Mahadev Bramhankar and Nand Lal Mishra
-Down to Earth Karnataka, Assam and Sikkim registered biggest spike in cases of spousal violence Gender-based violence across most Indian States declined in the past half-a-decade, according to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS). There were, however, several outliers. Karantaka, Assam and Sikkim, for instance recorded a spike in spousal violence cases. In Bihar, the cases of physical violence almost halved during a woman’s pregnancy in the last five years. Factsheets for the...
More »India needs to rethink its nutrition agenda -Dipa Sinha
-The Hindu Poor nutritional outcomes in NFHS-5 show that a piecemeal approach does not work The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released data fact sheets for 22 States and Union Territories (UTs) based on the findings of Phase I of the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5). The 22 States/ UTs don’t include some major States such as Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. While the...
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