-Hindustan Times According to the report, the awareness indicators for the country are better than that of Rajasthan. Jaipur: Nearly 72% of the youngsters in the age group 14-18 in rural Rajasthan have never used a computer and internet in their life, says the Annual Status of Education Report 2017 that was released on Tuesday. The ASER report, prepared by the NGO Pratham, surveyed 1,071 youngsters in 60 villages of Udaipur district for...
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Youths prefer Army, police jobs over agriculture: ASER report 2017
-The Indian Express The survey also reveals that almost 40 per cent youth have no role model for the occupation they aspire to pursue. Only a few of them wish to be part of the same profession as their parents. New Delhi: Medicine remains a preferred profession for those in the 14-18 age bracket with 18.1 per cent wanting to be either a doctor or a nurse. It seems the craze for...
More »ASER report 2017: In villages, as they grow up, more girls drop out of school -Uma Vishnu
-The Indian Express The 2017 ASER report focuses on 14 to 18-year-olds, interviewing over 30,000 children across 28 rural districts. Uma Vishnu explains some of its findings. 86% of youth in the 14-18 age group are still within the formal education system It has been eight years since the Right to Education (RTE) Act came into force in 2010, making elementary education a fundamental right for those in the 6-14 age group. Therefore,...
More »Prevalence of anaemia sees little change over 10 years, shows survey -Neetu Chandra Sharma
-Livemint.com Prevalence of anaemia among women has seen little improvement in 10 years, witnessing a rather small decline from 55% in 2005-06 to 53% in 2015-16, the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) said The prevalence of anaemia among Indian women has seen little improvement in 10 years, witnessing a rather small decline from 55% in 2005-06 to 53% in 2015-16, a detailed version of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) released this...
More »Poor social indicators must make Gujarat rethink its growth model
-Down to Earth Shockingly, the state’s infant mortality rate is worse than Jharkhand; it also has the fourth lowest teacher student ratio in the country “Social development indicators have not been able to keep pace with economic development in this state of over 60 million people," UNICEF had observed about Gujarat back in 2013. Four years later, Maitreesh Ghatak of London School of Economics writes about Gujarat’s development model: “When it...
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