-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After the success with opening bank accounts and two insurance schemes, the government is lining up a major push for retirement savings under its financial inclusion programme. The finance ministry has begun talks to rope in 1.5 lakh Post offices along with kirana shops and chemists to sell pension plans with an assurance of minimum returns. Sources told TOI that the department of Posts, which is...
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Higher education enrolment rate dismal in Bihar -BK Mishra
-The Times of India PATNA: Will Bihar be able to achieve the national target of raising gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education to 30% by 2020? As per indications, it seems impossible. Less than 1% of state's population is enrolled for higher education. The total number of boys and girls admitted in 250 constituent colleges and 350 affiliated colleges under 13 universities of the state is less than eight lakh against...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: A non-government organisation has come up with a raft of ideas to reform the judicial system, saying unless things were speeded up it would take at least a hundred years to dispose of the current backlog of three crore cases. The suggestions from the Children's Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP) came in representations the NGO made to Chief Justice of India (CJI) H.L. Dattu and Union law...
More »Hand-Washing and Public Health -Lekha D Bhat, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Hisham Moosan, Sanjeev Nair, and Muhammed Shaffi
-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...
More »Food insecurity: Fake ration cards stump PDS dealers in Jharkhand -Sanjoy Dey
-Hindustan Times Ranchi: The Jharkhand government’s hastily rolled out National Food Security Act (NFSA) suffered a major blow after several incidents of multiple fake ration cards being issued to the same person surfaced, creating a dilemma for dealers under the Public Distribution System (PDS). Jharkhand rolled out the ambitious NFSA in haste from October 1 this year, entitling more than 2.33 crore people of the state’s total 3.29 crore population to 5...
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