India's Exceptional Achievements in Social Sector and Improvements in Quality of Life

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India reduces 'out of school' children by 90 per cent: UNESCO
India’s schools now have an equal ratio of girls and boys

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The efficiency of public spending in India comes in for criticism, as does the expansion of contract teaching jobs in public schools.

India has made remarkable strides towards ensuring education for all, a new global monitoring report shows. While access is now close to universal, the quality of education remains a major challenge, it says.

In April 2000, the governments of 164 countries adopted the Dakar Framework to deliver Education For All commitments by 2015. On Thursday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) published the Education For All Global Monitoring Report to evaluate the progress of countries on these goals.

India is likely to reach the EFA’s first goal of 80 per cent enrolment in pre-primary education by 2015, has already reached the second goal of universal primary enrolment, and will fall just short of universal youth literacy by 2015, the report said. The one measurable goal India will not reach is to reduce its adult illiteracy rate by half (it has reduced it by 26 per cent). The country’s major success has been in reaching gender parity for primary and lower secondary enrolment, the only country in South and West Asia to do so. It has also made progress towards improving the quality of education, but major gaps remain.

According to the report, nearly half of all countries have achieved universal pre-primary, primary and lower secondary enrolment. Only 25 per cent of the countries have reduced by half their levels of adult illiteracy, and women continue to make up two-thirds of the illiterate. Two-thirds of the countries have also achieved gender parity at the primary level, but less than half at the secondary level.

“Overall, not even the target of universal primary education was reached, let alone the more ambitious EFA goals, and the most disadvantaged continue to be the last to benefit. But there have been achievements that should not be underestimated. The world has advanced by 2015 beyond where it would have been if the trends of the 1990s had persisted,” the report says. “A lesson re-emerging over the past 15 years is that while technical solutions are important, gaining political influence and traction is of even greater significance,” it notes.

However, major challenges remain. The efficiency of public spending in India comes in for criticism, as does the expansion of contract teaching jobs in public schools.

Most crucially, the “Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) said that while India’s education system succeeded in enrolling many more children, there were wide disparities in students’ achievement of basic skills across the States, a finding validated in the official National Achievement Survey of grade 3 students,” the report says.

Source:- UNESCO report lauds India’s progress - The Hindu
India’s schools now have an equal ratio of girls and boys, and that’s a big deal - The Washington Post
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India to launch first phase of immunisation drive on April 7

On World Health Day, India will launch its expanded immunisation programme - Mission Indradhanush - that targets to vaccinate 90% of India's 2.7 crore children against seven life-threatening diseases by 2020.

Beginning April 7, millions of frontline workers – vaccinators and community mobilisers – will start tracking and vaccinating close to one crore missed children in 201 high-risk districts in the "polio-mode" that helped India eliminate polio despite the virus thriving in neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan. India's last polio case was reported on January 13, 2011.

"Although India's immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world, we still need to expand the scope to ensure that no child is left without this protection. It is the right of every child to be fully immunised against disease," said Union health minister JP Nadda.

"Special vaccination campaigns will be conducted for 7 days, starting April 7, and will be repeated on the same date for four consecutive months to cover all children less than two years of age and pregnant women for the tetanus vaccine," said Nadda.

India's Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) – which vaccinates children against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B – currently fully covers only 65% of the country's children.

Of the 89 lakh children who do not receive all the vaccines, 17 lakh never get any vaccination at all. Unvaccinated or partially-vaccinated children run a 3-6 times higher risk of death as compared to fully immunised ones.

"Immunisation coverage has increased by only 4% in the last 4 years (at the rate of 1% per year), which has prompted the Centre to launch Mission Indradhanush with a target of vaccinating 90% children against all seven life-threatening diseases by 2020," said a Union health ministry official, who did not want to be named.

Nearly 25% of unvaccinated children are in 82 districts in four states — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

A national-level monitor has been assigned for each of the 201 high-priority districts to ensure no children are missed because of issues like lack of access to vaccines, information or migration.

"A national control room in Delhi will coordinate with state nodal officers to get daily updates and coordinate with the national level monitors to collect, compile and analyse the data from each district," the official added.

Third-party monitoring at the vaccination site and at the community level will be done by the World Health Organization Country Office using 225 field medical officers, nearly 900 field monitors and more than 1,000 external monitors, who will be supported by partner agencies such as UNICEF and CORE.​

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Source:- India to launch first phase of immunisation drive on April 7​

 

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India to launch first phase of immunisation drive on April 7

On World Health Day, India will launch its expanded immunisation programme - Mission Indradhanush - that targets to vaccinate 90% of India's 2.7 crore children against seven life-threatening diseases by 2020.

Beginning April 7, millions of frontline workers – vaccinators and community mobilisers – will start tracking and vaccinating close to one crore missed children in 201 high-risk districts in the "polio-mode" that helped India eliminate polio despite the virus thriving in neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan. India's last polio case was reported on January 13, 2011.

"Although India's immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world, we still need to expand the scope to ensure that no child is left without this protection. It is the right of every child to be fully immunised against disease," said Union health minister JP Nadda.

"Special vaccination campaigns will be conducted for 7 days, starting April 7, and will be repeated on the same date for four consecutive months to cover all children less than two years of age and pregnant women for the tetanus vaccine," said Nadda.

India's Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) – which vaccinates children against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B – currently fully covers only 65% of the country's children.

Of the 89 lakh children who do not receive all the vaccines, 17 lakh never get any vaccination at all. Unvaccinated or partially-vaccinated children run a 3-6 times higher risk of death as compared to fully immunised ones.

"Immunisation coverage has increased by only 4% in the last 4 years (at the rate of 1% per year), which has prompted the Centre to launch Mission Indradhanush with a target of vaccinating 90% children against all seven life-threatening diseases by 2020," said a Union health ministry official, who did not want to be named.

Nearly 25% of unvaccinated children are in 82 districts in four states — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

A national-level monitor has been assigned for each of the 201 high-priority districts to ensure no children are missed because of issues like lack of access to vaccines, information or migration.

"A national control room in Delhi will coordinate with state nodal officers to get daily updates and coordinate with the national level monitors to collect, compile and analyse the data from each district," the official added.

Third-party monitoring at the vaccination site and at the community level will be done by the World Health Organization Country Office using 225 field medical officers, nearly 900 field monitors and more than 1,000 external monitors, who will be supported by partner agencies such as UNICEF and CORE.​

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Source:- India to launch first phase of immunisation drive on April 7​

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How Rural India is Transforming! The combination of high economic growth, populist policies and good fortune had helped mask structural problems in the rural economy over the past decade.

 

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Source:- India’s farms haven’t transformed fast enough - Livemint
Machines drive 90% of power in farming, humans’ share drops to 5% - The Times of India​

 

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Income Inequality in India Lowest Among Emerging Nations: OECD​

Paris/London: India has the lowest income inequality among all emerging economies, but it is much higher than most of the advanced economies, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday.

The countries with higher income gap than India include Russia, China, Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa - which have recorded the highest income inequality among all developed and emerging economies studied by OECD.

Paris-based OECD, a grouping of the world's 34 major economies, said the rich-poor gap in most advanced economies has risen to highest levels in past three decades, while it continues to remain much higher in many emerging economies.

Among both developed and emerging countries, the gap was found to be highest in South Africa and lowest in Denmark. India had the lowest income gap, of the nine emerging economies studied by OECD, followed by Russia, Indonesia, Argentina, China, Latvia, Brazil, Columbia and South Africa.

For OECD countries, the income gap was highest in Chile, Mexico, Turkey, the US and Israel. The countries with lowest inequality are Denmark, Slovenia, Slovak Republic and Norway.

Talking about India, OECD said that the direct job creation schemes can serve as a useful back stop to ensure that the long-term unemployed and other disadvantaged groups maintain a contact with the labour market.

"India has one of the largest public works programme in the world in terms of coverage - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) - which plays an important role in reducing short-term poverty and smooth employment and income throughout the year for rural labourers."

"The programme however remains little used, mainly in poorer states because of lack of funding and weak implementation capacity," it added.

The think-tank said that the richest 10 per cent of OECD population now earns 9.6 times the income of the poorest 10 per cent. This ratio was seven-times in 1980s and nine-times in 2000s.

As per the study, wealth is now even more concentrated at the top level, exacerbating the overall disadvantage of low-income households.

In 2012, the bottom 40 per cent owned only 3 per cent of total household wealth. In contrast, the top 10 per cent controlled half of all total household wealth and the wealthiest 1 per cent owned 18 per cent.

"We have reached a tipping point. Inequality in OECD countries is at its highest since records began," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said.

"The evidence shows that high inequality is bad for growth. The case for policy action is as much economic as social. By not addressing inequality, governments are cutting into the social fabric of their countries and hurting their long-term economic growth," he added.

It also called for more steps to reduce the gender gap.

"If the proportion of households with working women had remained at levels of 20 to 25 years ago, income inequality would have increased (further)," it said.

Source:- Income Inequality in India Lowest Among Emerging Nations: OECD - NDTVProfit.com

 

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How Rural India is Transforming! The combination of high economic growth, populist policies and good fortune had helped mask structural problems in the rural economy over the past decade.

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Tried but not working - you can get all the images here - better quality as well - India’s farms haven’t transformed fast enough - Livemint

 

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[sherin616]

As a state KERALA DONE IT long long before


Now a days every beggars in kerala are fraud
There is many wellfare society that will take care of illed,old,Children for free education with free food will only cost you arround 300 a year

The minimus wage ecept salesmen is 750 rs per day so why do you have to begg if you can make 18000 or more per month

 

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India's Exceptional Achievements in Social Sector and Improvements in Quality of Life？？？



These people really have no sense of shame。

India is one of THE most backward countries in the world，backward in every aspect that matters。

Look at yourself in the mirror and what you see?

Skeletons!

You just proved yourself to be a shameless low life troll with no respect whatsoever - post reported - How low can you get man? Bloody 50 Cent Party.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

As a state KERALA DONE IT long long before


Now a days every beggars in kerala are fraud
There is many wellfare society that will take care of illed,old,Children for free education with free food will only cost you arround 300 a year

The minimus wage ecept salesmen is 750 rs per day so why do you have to begg if you can make 18000 or more per month

Indeed - Two models of economic development are very famous - The Kerela Model and the Gujarat Model - Kerela model of development had become world famous much before the Gujarat one. It is a model based on improving health, education and quality of life for people.

I find it pretty disturbing that the Kerala model has not brought economic prosperity in contrast with Gujarat, which has been corporatised in a dazzling manner but has abysmal development indicators. Gujarat might rank low in social indicators but when it comes to Industries and employment - It has much more to offer than Kerela which is well ahead of it in those very same social indicators.

So we have two models to choose from. One, where the investor is wooed and social indices are given short shrift. The other where the investor is frightened off and social indices are commendable. Not much to choose from really, unless the two models are merged to make one glorious blueprint for India.

@nair @Koovie @levina @SpArK - Your views.

 

[sherin616]

Indeed - Two models of economic development are very famous - The Kerela Model and the Gujarat Model - Kerela model of development had become world famous much before the Gujarat one. It is a model based on improving health, education and quality of life for people.

I find it pretty disturbing that the Kerala model has not brought economic prosperity is in contrast with Gujarat, which has been corporatised in a dazzling manner but has abysmal development indicators. Gujarat might rank low in social indicators but when it comes to Industries and employment - It has much more to offer than Kerela which is well ahead of it in those very same social indicators.

So we have two models to choose from. One, where the investor is wooed and social indices are given short shrift. The other where the investor is frightened off and social indices are commendable. Not much to choose from really, unless the two models were merged to make one glorious blueprint for India.

@nair @Koovie @levina - Your views.

You mean mumultinational investers like coco cola who drained water of entire region and yet sold second quality meterial or indian compainies like tata who distroyed acers of farm land to make car factory
We Keralites belive in intellectual growth not economical growth

 

[SarthakGanguly]

We Keralites belive in intellectual growth not economical growth

Will that fill your stomach?

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

You mean mumultinational investers like coco cola who drained water of entire region and yet sold second quality meterial or indian compainies like tata who distroyed acers of farm land to make car factory
We Keralites belive in intellectual growth not economical growth

I appreciate that - but these gains through the Kerela model are increasingly becoming meaningless because they have not been built on. There has been no value addition. Economic growth is important as the intellectual or social one.