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More than 110 million youth, men and women in the age group 15-32 migrate from their place of origin for a number of reasons. Cens...

 Even as debates on the different measures of poverty levels and poverty lines run their course, there is an uncounted population which is struggling to find its identity. This is the growing numbers of internal migrants of India that are largely invisible.

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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.

Read parliament budget session, railway budget, union budget, budget of states of eSS. You can also read the budgets of other Asian countries.

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.

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

Read Union and state Budgets, India. Also read the budgets of other Asian countries on eSS.

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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