-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Nine-year-old Priyanka Kumari wants to escape her impoverished childhood but the school she studies in is most unusual &NDAsh; 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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SECC reveals two Indias, but government refuses to disclose caste data -Iftikhar Gilani
-DNA OBCs make upto 66.48% of the total 17.92 crore rural households &NDAsh; much higher than 54% decided by the MaNDAl Commission in 1980 Even as the Union government shied away from releasing the caste data collected in 2011, the rural socio-economic survey data put out on Friday speaks of two Indias &NDAsh; that of the affluent and the poor. Around 73 % of the country's people live in villages, with the...
More »Growing illiteracy in rural India -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu Only 5.4 per cent has crossed higher secoNDAry school stage The Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) released on Friday has found that 36 per cent of the 884 million people in rural India are illiterate. This is higher than the 32 per cent recorded by the Census of India 2011. Of the 64 per cent literate rural Indians, a more than a fifth have not even completed primary school....
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-TheWire.com The first of its kind since 1932, results from the Socio Economic and Caste Census launched in 2011 were flagged off today by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. While the socio-economic data has been made public, the more sensitive &NDAsh; and, in some cases, telling &NDAsh; caste data has been placed for discussion before Parliament, according to Jaitley. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Govt bites the bullet on subsidies, to use SECC data that excludes 40% households -Elizabeth Roche & Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com All future allocations to poverty alleviation schemes will be based on Socio Economic and Caste Census findings New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on Friday signalled a radical regime change in its spending on entitlements. The government released provisional data from the first Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in seven decades and declared that it will form the basis for all future allocations under poverty alleviation programmes funded by...
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