-The Hindu Across the country, unless adequate jobs are created for the large labour force, the frustration of the youth is not likely to be contained. In Gujarat, the Patels or Patidars, who constitute about 15 per cent of the State’s population, are an economically and politically dominant upper caste. As successful farmers, as small and big industrialists, as traders as well as non-resident Gujaratis, spread practically all over the world, they...
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Number of students up 38% in 10 years, shows census -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India In the space of a decade, between 2001 and 2011, the student population in India exploded from about 229 million to 315 million. That's a jump of nearly 38%. The overall population growth in the same period was 18%. But Census data released on Friday underscores a much bigger shift within these gross figures. Students in the age group 15 to 19 years increased by a dramatic 73%...
More »Overall decline in green cover since 1986: Study
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A recent study on the city's green cover shows a disturbing trend. Delhi's vegetation has seen an overall decline since 1986. The green cover is also increasingly becoming fragmented, the study reveals. The highest fragmentation is being seen on the periphery where afforestation work is being conducted to compensate for the loss of trees to urban development projects. However, it is also only on the periphery that...
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...
More »Region and religion both matter for better population indicators -Rukmini S
-The Hindu For better population indicators, region and religion both matter, suggest data from 2011 and 2001 decadal Censuses. According to the data, in the more developed southern States all communities do better than in the more backward northern States. Poor education indicators Between 2001 and 2011, Muslims (24.65 per cent) remained the group with the fastest population growth, followed closely by Scheduled Tribes (23.66 per cent) and Scheduled Castes (20.85 per cent). All...
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