-The Hindu 2,000 deaths averted per year, says SRS bulletin Bengaluru: India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has seen a decline from 130 per 1 lakh live births in 2014-2016 to 122 per 1 lakh live births in 2015-2017. A decline of 8 points (6.2%) was observed during this period, according to the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) 2015-2017 bulletin for MMR released on Thursday. This is good news for India as nearly 2,000 maternal...
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Alarmed by large number of cases under SC/ST Act, Bihar asks DMs to take note -Santosh Singh
-The Indian Express According to the government’s direction, a district magistrate has to preside over four meetings of the committee every month and ensure implementation of sundry recommendations of the committee. Patna: With the recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2017 placing Bihar at the second worst position for the third consecutive year so far with respect to cases of atrocities against Dalits, the state’s General Administration Department...
More »Swachh Bharat In The City -Himanshu Gupta
-The Indian Express Urban areas require a different approach to end open defecation. The Swachh Bharat Mission is being executed by two different ministries — the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation for rural areas and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for urban areas. In the rural areas, the major challenge was to change the mindset of the populace so that they would start using household toilets rather than...
More »Four pillars of Indian justice system miss one major force- Women -Shreehari Paliath
-India Spend/ Business Standard The India Justice Report by Tata Trusts released on November 7, 2019, finds women poorly represented, accounting for 7 per cent of the police 10 per cent of prison staff At the current rate, nine Indian states will take more than 50 years to increase the share of women in their police forces to 33 per cent, as recommended, a new report estimates. While Madhya Pradesh will take...
More »Enable MSMEs to grow and create jobs -Ajay Shankar
-The Hindu Business Line Apart from easing labour laws and providing a social security net, a focus on clusters with access to land and capital will help Getting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), who employ 92 per cent of the workforce, to grow more rapidly should be one of the pillars of any strategy for job creation. This year’s Economic Survey does candidly state that “Our policies must, therefore, focus on...
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