-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Delhi has the highest density of hospitals in the country and more beds available for patients than the national average but it is impossible to get treatment in government-run hospitals when needed. The city’s rising population and the many thousands who come from other states seeking treatment have virtually put government hospitals, which offer cheaper care, out of reach for most people. Delhi has 976 registered hospitals and clinics...
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A Metro pillar pathshala puts lives of labourers’ kids on track -Dharvi Vaid & Sanjeev Rastogi
-The Times of India Two sturdy, grey Metro pillars near the Yamuna Bank station are covered with graffiti of a different kind. The walls under the bridge have alphabets scribbled over them and the place echoes with the murmur of children reciting poems as if trying to compete with the rattling of the metro. This is where Rajesh Kumar Sharma, a shop owner, spends his mornings, teaching the 3Rs and more...
More »Toilets in schools: Month to go for Red Fort address, private sector misses target PM set -P Vaidyanathan Iyer
-The Indian Express The private corporate sector has completed construction of just 424 toilets or 8 per cent of its commitment of 5,134 toilets. New Delhi: With just over a month to go for Independence Day, the private corporate sector has fared the worst in building school toilets to meet the target set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15 last year. He had announced construction of toilets in all...
More »Manual scavenging still prevails despite laws: Census report
-IANS The Socio Economic and Caste Census of 2011 released on Friday reveals that over 1.8 lakh people from rural India are still engaged in manual scavenging despite the law prohibiting it. The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act of 2013 prohibits any employment as manual scavengers and also promotes rehabilitation of these workers and their families. About 1,80,657 people are engaged in the practice, according to the census...
More »Delhi slum kids escape illiteracy with school under Metro bridge -Abhishek Saha
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Nine-year-old Priyanka Kumari wants to escape her impoverished childhood but the school she studies in is most unusual – underneath a metro bridge in east Delhi’s Shakarpur area. The pillars serve as the boundary of the school and trains roar past on the bridge above, rattling her as she solves elementary mathematical problems. “The teaching here is good, I like coming to this school. Sir gives work to do...
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