25 January 2012
By Aditi Seshadri It’s now been nearly two years since the watershed Right to Education Act 2009 — making education a fundamental right for every child between the ages of 6 and 14 years — was implemented in India but, as the recently published Annual Status of Education Report 2011 (ASER 2011) by NGO Pratham [...]
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20 January 2012
Nirantar, a centre for gender and education, is looking for people to join the team that is going to be involved in Khabar Lahariya expansion in the next year. The centre is looking for a dynamic woman to join a team that is setting up a chain of local language rural newspapers, Khabar Lahariya, run [...]
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20 January 2012
Kshana, an NGO that organises entertainment events for underprivileged and marginalised people, will have its first event of 2012 at YMCA, Andheri, on January 22, 2012. The 72 young boys, aged 6 to 17 years, will get to enjoy a fun-filled event, with games like Paper Dance and Four Corners, and a face painting contest, [...]
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20 January 2012
India’s school education success story has a flip-side: more than half of the students in class V in rural India cannot read the text taught in class II in 2011, even though around 97 % of children in the 6-14 age group are now enrolled in schools. The startling fact is finding of NGO Pratham’s [...]
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09 January 2012
OASIS, an organisation working towards promoting environmental awareness of the children, for the children and by the children, has organised an event called Haan Main Apraadhi Hoon, which is a dance and drama showcase to be performed at Carter Road in Bandra on January 21, 2012. The event aims to showcase the students’ learning of [...]
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03 January 2012
Support from initially hostile Muslim clerics means disease is rapidly vanishing, even in city where it had the strongest hold Moradabad is a nondescript and scruffy city, 110 miles north of the Indian capital Delhi. Few have heard of it, despite its population of nearly five million. But it is about to become the site [...]
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27 December 2011
By Nilratan Shende India has witnessed a series of changes and experienced transition from the repeated hunger and famine crisis to self-sufficiency in food, poor industrial growth and infrastructure to sizeable industrial and economic growth and not to mention scientific technological strides. It appears that India presents a dichotomous and paradoxical picture of accelerating economic [...]
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26 December 2011
Focusing on capacity development, complex as it may be, is really the only way to help countries end aid dependency, writes Jonathan Glennie in The Guardian A mantra in development, and a constant demand in every policy paper, is that there is a need for “capacity development”. The fact that this is still such a [...]
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26 December 2011
The government has promised to take steps to ensure effective implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, across the state. The state women and child development department said it would immediately issue a government resolution (GR) telling officials in hospitals, police stations and state offices to understand the urgency of domestic [...]
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26 December 2011
A recent survey by an NGO shows that though the government’s eligibility criteria for free housing remains the same, the slumdwellers, an overwhelming majority of whom are tenants, don’t have documents to prove they have been living there before 1995. The state government had selected Sector 5, which was covered by the Committee for Right [...]
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