Full Coverage: Development

30.11.2005 The role of women as producers and providers of food is often overshadowed by their role as care givers. However, in most of the developing countries, including India, large numbers of women are engaged in agriculture- primarily in the production and processing of food.

30.11.2005 Upbeat with the success of the technology mission in enchancing the cotton production, the Indian Society for Cotton Improvement (ISCI) has now expressed concerns over farmers not getting enough remunerative returns to cover the cost of cultivation.

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Food security, as defined at the World Food Summit in 1996, means access by all people at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. But unfortunately, food security has remained an unachieved goal in most of poor countries including Bangladesh.

29.11.2005 The 2005 Human Development Report paints a bleak picture of the progress made toward those aims six years into the campaign. Among the highlights: The report says the goals for poverty, universal education and child mortality will all be missed in 10 years if current trends continue.

29.11.2005 As a part of its ongoing campaign to impart sex education to the adolescents, the Population Education Cell (PEC) of SCERT has taken up interaction session with parents and other professionals of all walks of life.

29.11.2005 In the last 50 years India’s forests have decreased from 22 to eight per cent while our population has jumped to 1,000 million. The proposed Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Land Rights) Bill 2005 could sound the death-knell of forests as well as the tribals. Professor Vikram Soni takes a close look at the bill and the plight of both - forests and tribals.

29.11.2005 The recently published research report ‘The price of childhood’ shows that multinationals outsourcing cotton seed production to Indian farmers pay far too little to enable them to hire adults.

29.11.2005 The first women's university of south Punjab formally has started functioning, initially with four disciplines, at the Government College for Women in Multan. In a ceremony held at the girl's college, the university formally launched its post-graduate academic activities for women.

29.11.2005 India is just not about its cities. The real India lives beyond the cities and urban landscapes. We must ask ourselves whether we have even been able to provide roti, kapda aur makan to the teeming millions living in our villages? Why do we ignore the little children in dusty clothes begging at traffic signals in our cities? To that extent, isn’t this slogan of the 70’s still valid in 2005? If India lives in its villages, then it is the responsibility of all of us to make that real India—empowered. Mr. And it needs will power, vision and commitment to achieve that.

29.11.2005 India is just not about its cities. The real India lives beyond the cities and urban landscapes. We must ask ourselves whether we have even been able to provide roti, kapda aur makan to the teeming millions living in our villages? Why do we ignore the little children in dusty clothes begging at traffic signals in our cities? To that extent, isn’t this slogan of the 70’s still valid in 2005? If India lives in its villages, then it is the responsibility of all of us to make that real India—empowered. Mr. Brijmohan Lall Munjall, Chairman, Hero Honda motors Ltd.,challenges to have will power, vision and commitment to achieve that.

29.11.2005 Empowerment basically means to be able to do things on your own. Education is the basic pre-requisite of doing things on your own terms.An educated country has the best chance of thriving. If people are aware of their rights and duties, they can help in nation-building. Education is actually a way of living. India should provide free education to each and every child. Mr Shammi Kapoor addresses these issue in The Indian Express.

29.11.2005 Students of Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia in the Capital now have the option of finding out their HIV/AIDS status within the confines of the university clinic where all the data would be kept confidential.

28.11.2005 MANS, the UN Development Programme, LO Podgorica and the Ministry for Environment Protection and Spatial Development are organizing public hearings on issues of illegal settlements in Montenegro. Public hearings are held in all Montenegrin municipalities and so far there was 14 out of 21 meetings held with citizens of Montenegro.

28.11.2005 The world is set to miss its target of getting as many girls as boys into schools by the end of this year, the UN children’s fund (Unicef) said on Friday. In a new study, Unicef said that efforts to achieve gender parity in primary education were off track, despite progress in many nations.

28.11.2005 The right to education bill that will be tabled sometime in the coming year, has the potential to bring about a significant transformation in elementary education in India.It attempts to make effective a child’s right to free and compulsory education by focussing on the state’s obligation to provide schools of “equitable” quality.

28.11.2005 Bangladesh govt planning to introduce 'unified education system' at the secondary level.The system that intends to replace the existing compartmentalized methods of education---- students are allowed to take up science, commerce and humanities subjects at class nine--- with an unified education system at the secondary level from the next academic year.

28.11.2005 Using mobile mania that has gripped the country to do more than just connect people, ZQM Software Systems in the Capital is all set to tackle one of the biggest hurdles in checking transmission of AIDS -- lack of general awareness -- through fun and games. It will launch four mobile phone games on World AIDS Day, December 1, under the banner of "Freedom from AIDS/ HIV".

25.11.2005 Globalization changed the apologetic manner of the state. Government officers attended seminars, generally organized by NGOs, and declared unabashedly that the government could not do everything and that the private sector must step in to help. . The reality, however, was that expenditure on education was around two per cent of Pakistan?

25.11.2005 The polycentric WSF to be held at Karachi in Pakistan, previously planned to take place from January 24th to 29th, 2006, has been delayed by two months. The decision was taken during a meeting of the WSF 2006 Organizing Committee and Pakistani Social Forum National Committee in Lahore, on November 19th. The new date will be decided later.

25.11.2005 State Governments as well as the student community are only hoping that it will become possible for the Union Government and Members of Parliament to enact the Bill meant to regulate private professional colleges — the Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Bill, 2005. Mr V. Jayanth addresses issue on the bill in The Hindu.