Recently there is a raging debate about rising intolerance in India. Many people are of the view that since after Modi Sarkar came into power in 2014, incidents of intolerance have raised with feeling of insecurity and concern among minorities. In recent months, there have been spates of intolerant incidents all over the country: from the killing of rationalists like Pansare and Kalburgi to the burning of dalit children;...
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On 15th June 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘Skill India Mission’ (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, PMKVY) on the occasion of the first ever World Youth Skills Day, to ensure 231 million youth of India under the age of 25 are given the required skills that the economy desires and employment is created for the 12 million youth every year who get the training. The programme is also li...
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India is at present amongst the ten fastest growing economies in the world with largest number of illiterates. Approximately 40 per cent of India’s population is illiterate. Even after 68 years of independence, India is still struggling to provide education to its people and achieve 100 per cent literacy rate across the country. According to the 2009 Right to Education Act, education is free and compulsory for all children under the age group of 6 to 14....
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As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Sanitation is more important than Political Independence”, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the ambitious target of building India as an ‘open defecation free nation by 2 October 2019, on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary. Consequently as named the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, the campaign was launched with much fanfare. This was much required as...
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Recently we have seen the sundry reactions rising across the Indian society acknowledging the verdict of the Mumbai sessions court, passing 5 year jail sentence on the actor, Salman Khan, in a hit-and-run case. The case lugged for more than a decade, from one ploy to another, delaying the verdict. Although the judiciary system has taken its course in delivering the judgement, few sections of Indian society yet consider th...
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Once in a while we endure an incident that makes us criticise, and perhaps even question our entrenched views. When a rare incident that makes us do so even though it may not affect us directly, we try to understand the facts and the deep rooted causes behind the plight and what it means for us individually and collectively. The recent b...
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The central government’s biggest task in the coming days will be perception and delivery— both which should have been proactive by now. Narendra Modi is still India’s the most loftiest leader and one who is most expected to deliver better governance; but the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) massive win in the Delhi assembl...
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The Union Government will present its first full and perhaps its most crucial budget on 28 February against the economic state of a still-nascent recovery in the economy and an even more nascent one in investment and consumption, seeking to put Asia's third-largest economy on a path of 7-8 per cent growth over the next two years. The 2015-16 bud...
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It has been more than 67 years of our independence and it’s still presumed that the state-nation called India should have by now become a nation-state. But the fact remains that things are far from hunky dory.
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The WHO’s states that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition. During the mid-late 1990’s gender and social role became variables of social analysis that explain recurring social, institutional and stru...
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