-Economic and Political Weekly The importance of hand-washing in personal and public hygiene has evolved over the centuries. While the market with its countless number of soaps and hand-wash products for personal hygiene with the accompanying advertising has created a false sense of security, it is community hygiene implemented through public health measures that is really effective in the battle against disease. Lekha D Bhat (lekhabhatd@gmail.com) teaches at the Department of Social...
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14 lakh kids in Gujarat didn't go to School -Himanshu Kaushik
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Poonam Vanzara, 15, a nomadic girl from Dahod, and a resident of Vatva in Ahmedabad, has not even been to School. She along with 14.93 lakh children in the age group of 6-18 years from Gujarat have never attended School. The census figures about attending education institute reveal that around 9.63% children and youth between 6-18 years have never attended the Schools. Gujarat has 1.55 crore children...
More »This is how a Karnataka village stopped discriminating against a Dalit cook in a govt School -Anisha Sheth
-TheNewsMinutes.com It needed not just convincing, but also the threat of legal action against those who discriminated It took a lot of convincing, backed by the possibility of cases being filed against them, to get upper caste people to stop objecting to a Dalit woman being appointed as a cook in the Mysuru government School, where Chief Minister Siddaramaiah studied. On Friday, The Indian Express reported that attendance at a government School...
More »Sewa women teach Harvard students -Piyush Mishra
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Late Monday night in Boston, 25 students pursuing masters in public health from Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health gathered post-dinner for an important class. At the same time, three Self Employed Women's Association (Sewa) workers assembled at their office in Ellis bridge early on Tuesday morning to impart lessons to the students on the cooperative body's work and on leadership. The interaction session...
More »Study: Only 19% primary Schools in Bihar have toilets - Aranya Shankar
-The Indian Express The study also found that textbooks provided by the state government have grammatical errors with many words spelt incorrectly. A study conducted in 28 primary and upper primary Schools in various districts of Bihar has revealed that only 19 per cent primary Schools had toilets, 28 per cent had hand pumps and 83 per cent teachers were hired on contractual basis. The study also found that textbooks provided by...
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