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Education agenda for Narendra Modi-Anurag Behar

-Live Mint   Given the mandate that the BJP has received, it does have the political capital to support a new education agenda   The tactical and strategic brilliance of the campaign that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ran is visible in the election results. This also suggests that the BJP government is likely to start off on the task of governance with very clear ideas and in all likelihood with some specific plans....

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Avoiding doctor-centric health solutions-Sujatha Rao

-The Hindu   It is creditable that Narendra Modi seeks inspiration for his growth model from China and Japan rather than the U.S., which is a high-cost, specialist-driven model The old adage ‘health is wealth' was given legitimacy by no less a personage than Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who in 2000, chaired the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH). The CMH report brought forth indisputable evidence of the link between health,...

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Government's Rs 300-crore plan to tackle malnutrition in Maharashtra a waste of money: Study-Yogesh Pawar

-DNA The food is not up to the mark either, the study conducted by Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives has found. Mumbai: Nearly 45,000 children in the 0-6 age group die of malnutrition every year in Maharashtra. As a preventive measure, the government spends Rs300 crore yearly to provide kids with "micronutrient-fortified, energy-dense" food under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). But the project is a waste of money...

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Rs 40,000/- for E-Enabling of Each Gram Panchayat

-Press Information Bureau (Ministry of Panchayati Raj) Government of India is providing funds to States/UTs under e-enablement component of Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikarn Abhiyan (RGPSA)and Rs. 40,000 is given to each Gram Panchayat for computer, Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS), printer etc. subject to eligibility conditions. Ministry of Panchayati Raj has also provided 10 software applications under e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project (MMP) that seek to transform the functioning of Panchayati Raj Institutions...

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Protecting women at workplaces-Sriram Panchu

-The Hindu Sexual harassment cases usually have a marked power imbalance between the victim and the accused; this may well affect the negotiation scenario, with the victim being unable to hold her own In recent times, the issue of sexual harassment of women at the workplace has assumed prominence with serious allegations being made against a former Supreme Court judge, whose court pronounced verdict on huge scams, and the editor of a...

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