-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Three years of Right to Education has resulted in expansion of schools with 98% of habitations having primary schools within one kilometre and 92% habitations having upper primary schools within three kilometres. The government has now decided to shift the focus on quality of education and decided to formulate national standards for schools' performance to keep students and parents well informed. Making a presentation on...
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Older, wiser mother changing family portrait -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India Silently, the warp and weft of Indian families is changing, perhaps forever. Women are getting married later, they are having babies later and the gap between successive children is getting larger. Put this together with the fact that the average number of children born to a woman continues to decline, and children survive more than in the past, and you can see that families are being much...
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-The Indian Express Mumbai: The representatives told BMC to conduct an in-depth survey and publish a map of all slum-occupied land with the size of areas and the population there. More than a dozen social welfare groups and slum representatives demanded a more inclusive process for slums in the city's Development Plan (DP) in a public meeting with BMC Saturday. The representatives told BMC to conduct an in-depth survey and publish a map...
More »Is India ready for non-profit media?-Sevanti Ninan
-The Hoot We can either spend another year discovering how much the old model is disintegrating or we can explore alternatives. But India has not developed a tradition as yet of not-for-profit journalism, says SEVANTI NINAN. Two recent developments at the New York Times and at Time Inc. which publishes Time magazine underscore the fact that financing has and will remain become the number one issue for the future of journalism as...
More »Mission to cut neonatal deaths
-The Hindu Goa and Manipur may have knocked Kerala off the pedestal, but at 12 deaths among children less than one year of age per 1,000 live births, Kerala still has an enviably low infant mortality rate (IMR); it is far below India's average of 42. Yet, for years, the southern State has been unable to reduce the mortality rate further to a single-digit figure to become comparable with the...
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