A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined. …

Communal riots have become an annual feature of Indian life, although their number varies from year to year. A … undertrials no longer affect the conscience of the public. All these are an ominous indication of the dangers lying ahead the …

The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is … stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse. India counted only 914 … girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys or 75.8m girls and 82.9m boys. This sex ratio is the worst in the recorded …

Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …

. From each school/centre 10 beneficiary students (5 boys and 5 girls) and their respective parents were selected. Further a … dropout and three out of school children from the village were also selected randomly. From a block, a minimum of two and a …

This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery of comprehensive health …

India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region …-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of the total population of India. Altogether, 12 … the first half of 2006. Data from India GYTS 2003 and GYTS 2006 was analyzed to examine the change in different variables …

investment have been made using theoretically consistent models and data relevant to the Indian context. [WP No 214] …This paper investigates certain macro data on the Indian economy to draw inferences on the sustainability of the …

the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to … measure the change in these basic learning and school statistics from last year. Every year a core set of questions regarding … schooling status and basic learning levels remains the same. However a set of new questions is added for exploring different …