KEY TRENDS • Maternal Mortality Ratio for India was 370 in 2000, 286 in 2005, 210 in 2010, 158 in 2015 and 145 in 2017. Therefore, the MMRatio for the country decreased by almost 61 percent between 2000 and 2017 *14 • As per the NSS 71st round, among rural females aged 5-29 years, the main reasons for dropping out/ discontinuance were: engagement in domestic activities, not interested in education, financial constraints and marriage. Among rural males aged...
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Indian States Use Technology to Build Accountability
When noted economist Jean Dreze visited Surguja in Chhattisgarh a decade ago, its utterly non-functional Public Distribution System (PDS) looked like especially “designed to fail.” The National Advisory Committee member has written in a recent article that the ration shop owners illegally sold the grain meant for the poor and “hunger haunted the land.” But that was then. The economist was pleasantly shocked to see the transformation this time. “Ten years...
More »Daily minimum wages under MGNREGA hiked to 157
The state cabinet on Monday hiked the daily minimum wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) from the present Rs. 110 to Rs. 157 and approved the recruitment of 413 computer teachers. Briefing the media after the cabinet meeting, chief minister Digambar Kamat said that although the centre has fixed ` 110 as the minimum daily wages for people employed under the MGNREGA, it is not...
More »Centre now fixes 65-35 fund sharing pattern for RTE Act
Putting an end to the months of controversy over fund sharing for the Right to Education Act, the Union government has now fixed a 65-35 sharing pattern. The pattern, which received the in-principal approval of the expenditure finance committee of the ministry of finance, will be applicable for the next five years. With this, states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, both governments that had demanded 100% Central assistance, will have...
More »Naxalism: Govt Mulls OBC Expansion by Mukesh Ranjan
In a bid to instil a sense of belonging among people living in the Naxal-affected states of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, the government is considering the inclusion of 185 castes in the Central list of OBCs, which will entitle them to a slew of benefits. Sources in the government said, “A proposal to this effect from the ministry of social justice is high on the agenda of the Union Cabinet, which will...
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