Context: The National Council on Nutrition (NCN) has unanimously rejected Union Minister for Women and Child Development (WCD) ’s proposal to replace ready-to-eat food as take-home dry rations with energy-dense…
Context: Many children have died of malnutrition in India and yet Women and Child Development Ministers over the years haven’t decided what food to give children in anganwadis. This is…
Context: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) released a report highlighting the grim state of the Indian health system for newborns. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef)…
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 has these guidelines on how to report such cases. The details of the Act are as below PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM…
Context: The time is now ripe for another change: to replace the UGC Act, 1956, with a new law that should respond to the current needs of higher education. Such…
Context: Ayushman Bharat, the new, flagship health initiative of the government, has two dimensions. First, it aims to roll out comprehensive primary health care with Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs)…
Context: The last few years have seen interest among policymakers in women-led rural entrepreneurship Much of it has sought to leverage the experience gathered from the estimated 46 million rural…
Context; The union government’s scheme to provide health cover of ₹5 lakh per year to 10 crore poor and vulnerable families through the Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission has taken a step…
Context: Rajasthan has passed a Bill providing for death penalty to those convicted of raping girls of 12 years and below. National Crime Records Bureau’s 2016: According to the National…
Context: Of the 1.2 billion people in India, 586 million are women. On World Women’s Day, as we consider ways of empowering women and girls to optimize their full potential,…
