Primary health care forms an integral part of the country's health care system and is the driving force behind determining policies. The health of rural and tribal people in India has drawn increasing policy attention since 1970. Over the last three decades the various Governments have pursued...

In India, financial literacy could now be only for the disadvantaged needy / underprivileged / poor but this is a continuous process where all citizens of the country should be periodically educated, which would become a certain tool to pave for the economic growth and the strength of the...

As per Census of India 2011, there are 7,935 towns in the country. The number of towns has increased by 2,774 since last Census. The total number of Urban Agglomerations/Towns, which constitutes the urban frame, is 6166 in the country. Already the number of metropolitan cities with population of...

Muslims are one of the main minority communities in India, and are found almost in every nook and corner of India. The available data reveals backwardness among Muslims on many counts. It shows that there has been a serious lack of attention to the condition of the Muslim community by various...

The problem of urbanization and urban poverty is considered as the biggest challenge to development planning in India and eradication of urban poverty has continued to be the target of most of the policies framed in India. It is experienced that most of the poverty alleviation programmes through...

Out-of-pocket payments for health can cause households to incur catastrophic expenditures, which in turn can push them into poverty. Hence, key to protecting people is to ensure prepayment and pooling of resources for health, rather than relying on people paying for health services out-of-pocket...

In India majority of women and men residing both in rural and urban areas are unskilled. However, more number of women residing in the rural areas is unskilled compared to men living in both rural and urban areas. And these unskilled women workers are working in the informal sector facing many...

Among various environmental problems, issue of solid waste management (SWM) is important and burning issue especially in urban India. With the rapid growth of big cities, slums, the breeding grounds of urban squalor and environmental issues, swell primarily due to increased migration of the...

Human development is a process of enlarging the choices of all people not just for one section of the society. If some sections are excluded from the benefit of mainstream development such development process becomes unjust and inequitable. The rights to equality are enshrined in the...

Female literacy is considered to be a sensitive index of social development compared to overall literacy rate. It is a well established fact that Female literacy is negatively related with fertility rate, population growth rate, infant and child mortality rate and shows a positive association...