The fact that progress in equal rights for women has come about largely through the efforts of social reform movement in the 19th century and women’s liberation movement in the 20th century Maharashtra highlights the essential role of collective agency in human progress. Given the constraints...

Potential of Tourism as one of the most effective drivers for the development of regional economies has been acknowledged by government of Maharashtra. It is one of the key sectors of the economy which makes a positive contribution to government revenues, generation of employment and...

The Millennium Development Goals are a derivative of the Millennium Declaration of September 2000, which spells out the following values: freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature, and shared responsibility. They are a clarion call of 189 governments, on behalf of their...

A socio-economic profile of Muslims in Maharashtra commissioned by the Maharashtra State Minority Commission indicates dismal conditions on the social, economic and educational fronts as also poor representation in the legislature and the Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service...

Implementation of Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009 in Maharashtra has brought massive changes in profile of education of girls. Many corporate have picked up ‘girls' education' as CSR activity as per Company's Act. 2013. The mindset of educated professionals and opinion makers has also...

This is how the song sung for the first time by “Toiling Women's Liberation Movement” members in the late seventies ended. It represented the gusto of a newly formed mass organisation of tribal women of Dhulia district (Vibhuti Patel, 1987).It became popular among the women's groups not only...

Every third person in urban India is a youth. In less than a decade from now, India, with a median age of 29 years, will be the youngest nation in the world. In an economy that is not growing as it ought, inequitable distribution of income and resources and a society stressed by forces of a new...

Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women as well as between the rich and the poor Hence, the...

Gender equality between women and men refers to the equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities for women and men and girls and boys. Equality does not mean that women and men will become the same but that women's and men's rights, responsibilities and opportunities will not depend on...

Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women as well as between the rich and the poor Hence, the...