The budgetary allocation to Ministry of HRD for various schemes has been increased by 17% to Rs.65,877 crore. Under the total budgetary allocation, Rs 272.58 billion has been allocated for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rs 39.83 billion for Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, Rs 52.84 billion for scholarships and remaining for up-gradation of existing universities and other education schemes.

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Kerala government is going to introduce contributory pension plan for government employees. 75% of the state revenue expenditure is salaries and pension. It is high time that the government switch to this plan.

In response to the depreciating value of Indian rupee against dollar, Reserve Bank of India has stepped up to help the sinking currency to rebound from its five months low. The central bank directed exporters to convert up to 50% of their foreign currency holding with banks into rupee balances within a fortnight, a move that will bring at least $2.5 billion into the market, lending support to the rupee. A combination of this announcement and the speculation that the RBI has intervened in the...

Hi Government has decided to discontinue NFHS. The ministry of health and family welfare is instead planning to roll out an integrated national health survey (NHS) that will replace three existing ones—NFHS, the district-level health survey (DLHS) and the Annual Health Survey (AHS) conducted across nine priority states by the office of the census commissioner. What are your opinions on this? See the detailed news on eSS http://www.esocialsciences.org/News/showNews.aspx?aid=471

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Municipal waste management is now become a hot issue on which no one gets a clear view to how to solve the problem. Funds are available from the state government and other agencies to tackle the issue. Managing waste from its origin has become a slogan of the socio-political organisations but no fruitful efforts have been made on this critical question. The MPhil scholars of Centre for Development Studies in 2002, had identified Vilapilsala village as a case to unearth the question of municipal...

Hi What are your budget expectations? Don't you think that government should come up with policies for young people and old people?

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An intersting articles in PLoS Biology mirrored on eSS:http://www.esocialsciences.org/Articles/showArticle.aspx?acat=Recent+Articles&aid=4638 It discusses interesting features of the open access phenomenon and the author commends authors who publish in open access journals. But most of these open access journals are in fact open for publication only to authors who can pay. That is, once the paper is accepted for publication the author has to pay a fee---and for us in India and other such coun...