-The Times of India NEW DELHI: For the longest time, most calls that came to Childline would be from a kid on a railway platform asking for help after a brutal police beating or desperately looking for shelter. But the decline of public call offices (PCOs) across the country have led to a sharp drop in calls from marginalized children to India's first toll-free helpline for children in distress. The decline...
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Govt plans to give 2.5 crore Mobile Phones, 90 lakh tablets free -Prabhakar Sinha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In another mega scheme to woo the poor, the Centre proposes to spend Rs 7,860 crore distributing 2.5 crore Mobile Phones and 90 lakh tablets virtually free of cost to targeted beneficiaries over the next four years starting 2014-15, in the name of bridging the digital divide in the country. The Mobile Phones will come bundled with free connection charges for two years. The user, who...
More »Addressing deficiencies in public systems- Gulzar Natarajan
-Live Mint The mid-day scheme is underpinned by a rent-seeking chain that keeps all the major stakeholders satisfied The mid-day meal (MDM) tragedy in Chhapra once again focuses attention on the low-level equilibrium that our public systems are trapped in. Consider these facts. Apart from rice, which has to be collected from the local ration shop, the MDM programme allocates each primary and upper-primary child Rs3.11 and Rs4.65, respectively to purchase pulses,...
More »Government's latest election sop: Mobile Phones to females workers-Anandita Singh Mankotia
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: India is preparing to give Mobile Phones to each female member of a household, who has worked for 100 days in 2012 under a rural employment guarantee scheme run by the government, as per an internal presentation of the telecom department. If implemented, this would be the latest sop the government is planning to woo a population ahead of a slew of state polls leading up to...
More »Cops blame illicit relations for soaring crime graph in UP -Faiz Rahman Siddiqui
-The Times of India KANPUR: Murder over betrayal in love-affairs and relationships is one of the major reasons behind the soaring crime graph in the state. According to a study conducted by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), as many as 28,145 persons were killed nationwide in crime of passions between 2001 and 2012. Uttar Pradesh accounted for nearly 4,200 of these murders. Andhra Pradesh leads the list with 4,901 killings followed by...
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