National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach The government programmes for children suffering from HIV/AIDS should move from medicine-centric approach to include nutrition and preventive care, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recommended. In its recently released report ‘Rights and entitlements of children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS 2010-11’, the organisation also advocated provisions for issuing BPL cards to children who have lost their...
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The Food’s Off The Table-Harsh Mander
It is disappointing that the government has not taken any steps to provide for the Food Security Bill, which is in Parliament, in this budget. A significant announcement on it was anticipated this year; that would have been the only way to see it roll out in 2012. Now, I think, the government must be bargaining for legal processes to take over, which we know will take some time, before...
More »GEAC, experts slip on basics? by Latha Jishnu
As the biotech industry takes heart from the prime minister’s remark, a fresh report shows India’s regulation and expertise on GM crops are sloppy BUOYED by the prime minister’s remark that NGOs were responsible for the moratorium on the release of GM or Bt brinjal, the biotech industry is stepping up its campaign to get it lifted along with “all constraints in the research and development work of biotech crops”. It...
More »Budget 2012: Over 21% hike in Right to education funds
-IANS Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday announced a hike of over 21 per cent in the budget allocation for providing free and compulsory education to children below 14 years. "I proposed an increase in allocation by 21.7 per cent for RTE ( Right to education) -Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to Rs.25,555 crore," Mukherjee said in parliament. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is implemented in partnership with state governments and covers nearly 192 million children across...
More »Notice to St Joseph’s School for violating RTE
-The Times of India A prominent private school in the city was found conducting admission tests of students of class I on Thursday for allegedly violating the Right to education (RTE) Act. Acting on the orders of the District education Officer (DEO) and the intervention of the District Project Coordinator (DPC), the written exam was cancelled and a notice was served to the school for the same. On Thursday, St Joesph's Co-ed...
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