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Left at the altar – alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled. While one incident took place in Rohtas district’s Khaira village, the other was in Aurangabad’s Judahi village. Savita Kumari from Khaira called off the [...]
The Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology Sh Sachin Pilot yesterday informed the RajyaSabha that cyber crimes are on the rise in the country. Giving details Shri Pilot said ,as per the cyber crime data maintained by National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 217, 288, 420 and 966 Cyber Crime cases were registered under Information Technology Act, 2000 during 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 [...]
`Jobless growth’ has now become a well known phrase, indicating the lopsidedness of the trajectory of economy. Internationally unemployment has become the main reason for upheavals in various countries. An analyst recently noted the three main issues confronting the American Society and listed it as Jobs, Jobs and Jobs. It is in this situation, the latest report of ILO on [...]
Persistent malnutrition continues to cast a pall onIndia’s growth story. Despite vast improvements in the country’s economic status over the last two decades, food security eludes the country’s poor to such an extent thatIndiaranks a dismal 67th among 81 countries on the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Hunger Index 2011. Indian children are among the hungriest in the world, [...]
The desire in their eyes is apparent. It’s the desire to reclaim their lives, to do something that will give them the ability to indulge their children, or buy a trinket for themselves. It’s the desire to dream of a life they would never have dared to otherwise. They are the Kalandar women, who come from a nomadic gypsy tribe, [...]
Bar codes are helping to put an end to the rampant pilferage that marks the public distribution system (PDS) in distant Rayagada, a tribal district in Odisha where some of the poorest in the country live. They are ensuring that women like Madi Eswari, 50, of Kolanara block in Rayagada keep hunger at bay. Earlier, despite having a ration card [...]
Census is a reflection of truth and facts as they exist in a country about its people, their diversity of habitation, religion, culture, language, education, health and socio-economic status. The word ‘Census’ is derived from the Latin word ‘Censere’ meaning ‘to assess or to rate’. In the present context ‘population census’ in India is primarily an official enumeration through a [...]
The objective of the Houselisting and Housing Census Operations is to identify each building/census house and also to ascertain the quality of the census house, amenities accessible to it and assets available to the households living in those census houses. The enumerators collected the information by visiting each and every household and canvassing a written questionnaire called the Houselist and [...]
The Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has informed the Lok Sabha that Employment opportunities in the organized sector have also been increasing along with the increasing in the Gross Domestic Product. As per information collected under Employment Market Information Programme of Directorate General of Employment & Training, number of persons employed in the organized sector as on [...]
The Labour Bureau in the Ministry of Labour & Employment has submitted its Thirteenth Survey Report after monitoring the effect of global financial crisis and economic slowdown in India since September 2008. This survey is in the series of “Quarterly Quick Employment Surveys in Affected Sectors” and covers the last quarter of year 2011 ( period October to December, 2011). [...]
The issue of poverty estimates has been the subject matter of public debate in and outside Parliament. Government respects and is fully conscious of the sensitivities of the people on this issue. The methodology for arriving at poverty estimates has been in place for the last several years and various committees in the past have arrived at estimates based upon [...]
The Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has informed the Rajya Sabha that The National Advisory Council has recommended abolition of child labour under the age 14. These recommendations are in the backdrop of the Right toEducation Act which provides for free and compulsory education for children up to 14 years. Certain amendments to Child Labour (Prohibition & [...]
The Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has informed the Rajya Sabha the Government is implementing two Schemes for rehabilitation of child labour i.e. (a) National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme, which is 100% Central Sector Scheme is being implemented through District Project Societies headed by Deputy Commissioner/District Magistrate. (b) Grant in Aid (GIA) Scheme under which funds to the extent of 75% of the project cost [...]
The Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has informed the Rajya Sabha that Reliable estimates of employment and unemployment are obtained through quinquennial labour force surveys conducted by National Sample Survey Office. Last such survey was conducted during 2009-10 .As per two most recent round of surveys, about 23.4 per cent and 25.3 percent of persons were estimates [...]
The Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has informed the Rajya Sabha thatReliable estimates of employment and unemployment are obtained through quinquennial labour force surveys conducted by National Sample Survey Office. Last such survey was conducted during 2009-10. As per the three most recent surveys, employment growth rate estimated on usual status basis has decelerated from 2.95 percent during 1990-2000 to 2004-2005 to 0.28 percent during 2004-05 to 2009-10. [...]
The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that the Census of India, 2001 had estimated that 19,43,766 people are homeless out of 1,02,87,37,436 people in the country which is 0.2% of the total population. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, out of 19,43,766 homeless people, 11,65,167 are rural homeless people [...]
Approximately 25 per cent of the births are not being registered in India. The level of registration of birth in India is 74.5 and 77.5 per cent respectively for the year 2007 and 2008. UNICEF Report on “ The State of the World’s Children, 2012” reveals that 59% of the birth in urban India and 35% in rural India are [...]
The caste system contains both social oppression and classexploitation. The dalits suffer from both types of exploitation in the worst form. 86.25 per cent of the scheduled caste households are landless and 49 per cent of the scheduled castes in the rural areas are agricultural workers. The dalits are subject to untouchability and other forms of discrimination despite these being [...]
the Planning Commission released the poverty estimates emerging from the latest NSS Household Consumer Expenditure Survey for 2009-10. These estimates are based on updating the Tendulkar poverty line for 2004-05 to 2009-10, as per the methodology suggested by the Tendulkar Committee for updating of poverty line. 1. The Tendulkar poverty line is defined in terms of per capita consumption expenditure on [...]
Cycling to work may soon become a reality in Delhi, and not just for the poor. With pollution and shrinking roadspace, the capital is under pressure to adopt the Netherlands model that promotes cycling as an alternative to driving. “Cycle is the future in India but the voice has to reach out,” said Pankaj Munjal, president-designate, All India Cycles Manufacturers’ [...]
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