Responding to the Union Budget announcement that 80 million poor families will benefit from free liquefied cooking gas, Krishnavatar Sharma, Co-Founder and Director of Programmes at Aajeevika Bureau, said:

“Our Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is right to recognise the ‘curse of smoke’ for the women of India. Women spend time and energy collecting firewood and plastic to cook with, and in turn suffer from lifelong health problems. The wom...

The proportion of working age population in India is more than 60 per cent. In 2001 it was 58 per cent. As the discussion of reaping the demographic dividend is going on there is a need to understand not only the reproductive health of this age group but also understand the specific disabilities that this age group has.

As a percentage of total working population there is 2.2 per cent of working population in the c...

                                  Are they really having High Standard of Living?

The quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment o...

                                                        Searching for Opportunities

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.

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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.

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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