-The Hindu Bangalore: The government has identified 15 basic amenities to enhance Quality of life in villages. It has asked gram panchayats (GPs) to make all these facilities available to the people. These include drinking water, playgrounds and open-air theatres. The move is aimed at arresting the migration of rural people towards urban areas. In a circular issued last week, the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Department said of the 6.11...
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Efforts to bring more girls to school highlight of Int'l Day of Girl Child
-PTI New Delhi: To mark the second International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF on Friday highlighted the power of innovation to get more girls in schools and improve the Quality of learning for all children. Millions of girls are still out of school, including 31 million primary school aged girls who are denied Quality education and a chance to reach their full potential. According to UNICEF, evidence shows that even a single...
More »Report Finds 400 Million Children Living in Extreme Poverty
-The World Bank Press Release WASHINGTON- The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world has sharply declined over the past three decades, but in 2010 it still included roughly 400 million children, or one -third of those living in such abysmal conditions, according to a new World Bank analysis released today that for the first time gives an in-depth profile of the poorest people in the world. The report...
More »Escape velocity: Did Harvard dons inspire Rahul Gandhi?
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Jupiter's gravity could be Rahul Gandhi's flourish, but "escape velocity" is a buzzword in macro economics and empowerment this year, figuring in the title of an influential paper by two Harvard economists studying racial ineQuality. In "Achieving escape velocity: Neighbourhood and school interventions to reduce persistent ineQuality", Harvard's Roland D Fryer and Lawrence F Katz examine policies that enable youth to "escape the gravitational pull of...
More »A better life, a healthier mind -Vandana Gopikumar
-The Hindu Poverty takes a huge toll on the mind and on this World Mental Health Day, the focus should be on the well-being offered by community-based alternative approaches In recent years, the impact of mental illness on the social and economic health of nations has been well understood, placing mental ill health as one of the leading causes of disability adjusted life years (DALY) worldwide. There has been much focus on...
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