-The Hindu Rescuing Maternal and Child Health-only systems, which have become under-resourced and have built a very high-cost but low-performance culture, will be a challenging task. Given the rising burden of non-communicable diseases, there is an increasing demand to build health systems that can address these concerns. However, given how large the unfinished agenda of the Millennium Development Goals is, the Indian government has chosen to stay focussed on Maternal and Child...
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Most crimes against women intensified in last 11 years
India is increasingly becoming an unsafe place for women to live, as has been confirmed by the recent report entitled Crime in India 2014 from National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Although the rate of total cognizable crime committed against women in India has been 56.3, the rate of IPC Crimes under Sexual Offences stood at 22.16 during 2014, finds the report Crime in India 2014. Most cognizable crimes against women...
More »IMD’s monsoon forecast -Anil Padmanabhan
-Livemint.com With barely weeks left for the to begin its retreat, it is emerging that India will close the year with a deficit much higher than what was initially forecast Another year and another bad monsoon. What were the odds? The India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast this year’s monsoon—like last year—to be below normal. At that time, we all hoped that the IMD had got it wrong—the economy was on the...
More »Maharashtra has most women cops, but just 10% of force -Anahita Mukherji
-The Times of India MUMBAI: In 2014, Maharashtra had more women in its police force than any other state or union territory in India. But its 17,957 policewomen formed a minuscule 10.48% of the state's total police force. Delhi ranks 12th in the list, at 7.15%, well below Chandigarh's top tally of 14.16%. The Maharashtra numbers are particularly depressing because the state was the first to introduce a 30% reservation for women...
More »More children in school, but very few enter college -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Over 400 million people, or over a third of the population in 2011, had never attended any school or educational institution, new numbers from the census show. According to the new data, while enrolment in school is now over 80 per cent for school-age children, higher education enrolment remains low. Enrolment in educational institutions rose between 2001 and 2011 at every level, most of all in the primary and secondary school-going...
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