Full Coverage: MDGs

28.04.2006 The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has run into a roadblock with the Centre deciding to cut down the minimum wages.A few days ago, after analysing the average payments to workers employed under the EGA, the Centre decided to fix a uniform wage rate of Rs 60.

28.04.2006 The current debate about 27% OBC reservation and sufficient access to educational institutions poses various questions to the stakeholders. In terms of access in the higher education till date only 10% of the people in the age group of 18-24 are in the higher education system.

28.04.2006 At least two sailors were killed and three STF personnel injured when suspected LTTE cadres exploded two claymore mines targeting the security forces in two separate incidents in Mannar and Jaffna.

28.04.2006 King Gyanendra reinstated the assembly on 24 April in a bid to end almost three weeks of nationwide protests in which at least 14 people died. But the swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala was delayed due to ill health.

28.04.2006 At least half a billion people in developing Asia are unemployed or underemployed and finding ways to provide them productive jobs should top economic agendas around the region, according to an ADB book.

28.04.2006 The third annual Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on the MDGs,
subtitled Strengthening Mutual Accountability – Aid, Trade
and Governance was published on April 20, 2006, by the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

It highlights economic growth, better quality aid, and trade reforms, as well as governance as essential elements to achieve the MDGs. The elements of global monitoringexamined in detail in the report include poverty and malnutrition; human development outcomes; meeting commitments on aid, trade, and debt relief; performance of international financial institutions; governance in developing countries; and global checks and balances to strengthen governance.

27.04.2006 The United States Wednesday vowed to organise an international pressure campaign against the LTTE in the aftermath suicide bombing in Colombo. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher said the State Department was in touch in Washington and abroad with other countries "to bring to bear whatever pressure we can on the Tigers to abandon this course of action" and to look for ways to support the Government of Sri Lanka.

27.04.2006 Thousands of people have fled their homes in north-eastern Sri Lanka as the military launched fresh air strikes on Tamil Tiger targets. Local officials said about 40,000 people were moving north to seek safety in the jungle.

26.04.2006 The Country Gender Assessment 2005, report of the World Bank, was released in the capital on April 25, 2006; although noticing improvement in the quality of life for women, it has identified gender inequalities in various sectors of Pakistan.

26.04.2006 The surface of the Ladakh is covered with a thin gray layer of democratic fabric. Ladakh being a part of India is also having a democratic form of government at the local level (Ladakh Autonomous Hill development Council Leh and Kargil respectively). In order for Ladakh to achieve its full economic, social and political potential, all of its citizens must have an equal opportunity to participate in the democratic process.

26.04.2006 India is on the threshold of overhauling its higher education system for meeting the demands of its booming economy as well as securing a place amongst the knowledge-based economies of the coming era.

26.04.2006 The Global Action Week under the global campaign for education in the state kicked off with these astounding figures and quite understandably, the topic of the week begining April 24, this year is ‘Every child needs a teacher’.

25.04.2006 Encouraged by the rapid strides in the Information Technology sector, the Andhra Pradesh State Government is chalking out plans to introduce computer education in 10,000 zilla parishad and Government high schools.

24.04.2006 Earlier this year, the Indian government launched a bold, multi-million dollar scheme to tackle rural poverty. It guarantees 100 days work a year for every rural household. It's manual work at the minimum wage.

21.04.2006 Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje Scindia,announced the launch of a thousand rural knowledge centres (RKCs) in Rajastan, to be managed entirely by women and womenÂ’s groups.

21.04.2006 25 per cent of the seats in Delhi private schools are reserved for poor students, to be provided free. But this provision is dodged in numerous ways; schools claim ignorance of the law, that they can't find poor students, that poor students have to be educated separately even if admitted, and so on. Deepa A reports.

20.04.2006 Economic growth and poverty reduction have occurred unevenly across, and even within, Asian countries. This paper by Naila Kabeer focuses on the chronic nature of poverty, and explores why social exclusion makes it more difficult for some sections of the poor to take advantage of the opportunities generated by economic growth. Social exclusion therefore presents a particular challenge to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Asia.

20.04.2006 This innovative project, jointly launched by Salesians Society and Navjeevan Trust with the active support of the Chandigarh Administration.

20.04.2006 Around half dozen agitators were injured as police rained lathis on a mob heading towards the residence of the Chief District Officer. Police also beat up some agitators after a dispute erupted in the municipality office as the agitators were trying to padlock it.

20.04.2006 The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district unit of Jamiyyatul Falah will undertake an education awareness campaign during 2006-07. The organisation set up in 1988, with the objective of undertaking educational programmes, has decided to construct a community hall on its premises in Kankanady for the purpose