-The Times of India India's towns are worse than its villages when it comes to the child sex ratio (CSR), but its biggest Cities are even worse. Against an overall ratio of 914 girls for 1,000 boys in the age group of 0-6 years, the urban ratio is 902 but the combined figure for Cities with a population of a million or more is just 898. Look through the data for the...
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-AP Severe stress on food, water and jobs She's a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and three of the children have quit school for lack of money to pay required fees. “I regret to have made all those children,” says Godelive Ndageramiwe. “If I were to start over, I would only make two or...
More »For RTE’s sake, PM writes to 13 lakh heads of schools by Aditi Tandon
This Education Day (November 11), the principal of each elementary school in India will receive VVIP mail -- a letter from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Contained therein will be a highly personalised message of the PM for the children of the country, who have long been guaranteed the Right to Education (RTE) by law, but who may not still know of it. The letter, to be posted to 13 lakh principals of...
More »Redistribution is not inclusion growth by Arvind Panagriya
Only in India does redistribution, which keeps the poor and marginalised out of the mainstream of the economy, pass for inclusive growth. In much of the rest of the world, inclusive growth would mean giving the poor and marginalised a direct stake in the economy with fast-growing industries and services absorbing them into gainful employment and, thus, making them true participants and partners in the growth process. But in India, we...
More »No breakthrough at Maruti after first day of talks between workers, management
-The Hindu Talks brokered by Gurgaon district administration are expected to continue today The first day of talks between the management and striking workers of Maruti Suzuki India Limited's Manesar plant on Monday, brokered by the Gurgaon district administration, did not yield a breakthrough even as the strike entered its 11th day. The talks are expected to continue on Tuesday. Meanwhile, thousands of workers demonstrated outside the Deputy Labour Commissioner's office in Gurgaon...
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