-TheWire.in/ IndiaSpend.org But female participation in India’s workforce has declined from 34% in 1999 to 27% in 2014, making it the worst rate among BRICS nations. The five states with the largest proportion of literate women – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra – account for 53% (4.3 million) of all business establishments owned by women nationwide, although no more than 33% of India’s women live in these states,...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 11178
Jim Yong Kim could spoil India's Davos party in 2017 over stunting -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com India continues to have high stunting levels, despite impressive growth New Delhi: India has earned a lot of praise from Leaders of international economic institutions and forums for being the fastest growing economy in the world in recent years. This might not be the case when world capitalist Leaders meet in Davos for the 2017 World Economic Forum in January next year. Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank’s president, has...
More »The organic farming conundrum -Sathya Raghu V Mokkapati
-The Hindu Without doubt, India needs to go forward with bio-safe agricultural practices, but the farmers need to be helped to make them sustainable Reshma religiously mixes cow dung and manure in the soil in her farm, hoping for a better yield at least this time around. Reshma is a 22-year old smallholder farmer in a village outside Hyderabad. She is a part of the growing army of farmers in India who...
More »The business of malnutrition -Veena Shatrugna & Sylvia Karpagam
-Down to Earth How companies are supplying unsafe and unverified nutrition supplements to children in Karnataka A curious case has emerged in Karnataka. Well-known companies, including Biocon, Jindal Steel and Scania, are supplying spirulina granules to undernourished and malnourished children enrolled in anganwadis (child daycare centres) under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), in direct contravention of a 2004 Supreme Court order which said, “Contractors shall not be used for supply...
More »Indian towns fare poorly on basic infra, socio-economic indicators -Moushumi Das Gupta
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: A first of its kind study on the state of India’s small towns – those with a population of less than one lakh – has come up with a grim picture of these mushrooming urban settlements. Though the numbers of such towns have grown by 157 % -- from 2223 in 1961 to 5705 in 2011, they have “enormous backlogs” when it comes to basic infrastructure and socio-economic...
More »
