Why is India still a developing country and what is stopping it from being a developed country? This particular question strikes me every time when I read something about India’s education system. I see India’s education system as a stumbling block towards its objectives of achieving inclusive growth…
India adopted a National Policy for Children in 1974, declaring children to be the nation’s most precious asset. The population of children in a country comprise its human resources of the future and the social, economic and cultural growth development of any society or community hinges upon the quality of its human resources…
Census of India, 2001 report states that there are 13.7 million child laborers in India. But the Planning Commission made an estimate in 2000 that there must be at least 20 million child laborers in India. This means that at any given point of time…
Every issue that our society faces is like a link of a chain. Each issue is connected to another, either directly or indirectly. The chain of issues in this society that we live in, the strongest link of that chain is illiteracy. Illiteracy is the mother of all issues…
I do not have to mention why I am choosing this topic to let my heart out. Illiteracy has been one of the most devastating devils that challenge India. A nation of many states and a master of many trades, even today, India has not been successful…
Illiterates are simply those who can’t learn, read or write. But does that translate into those who can’t learn, earn, read, breed; that those who can’t write are never right? Why do many poor children not attend school? The response usually heard is that their families are too poor afford the education, and that the Government has been lax in establishing free education facilities at the primary level…
Jugnu, aged between 7-10 years, son of a poor labourer working near my house, depicts the typical life of many unfortunate children in India. He carries bricks on his head, serves tea and faces the wrath and abuses of his employers. This situation is unfortunately the plight of many children in India. Every child born in a poor family is looked upon as a bread earner for the family…
I have a dream for the Invisible Indians. Those Invisible Indians who are starving every moment, who are committing suicides due to prolonged crisis in their life, who are malnourished to the extent that they hardly look like humans…
This is the guiding tenet of “The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” which came into effect as a law in India on August 25, 2005.This law guarantees employment of 100 days to any…
