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Naco's new AIDS strategy to focus on would-be migrants by Kounteya Sinha
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al Aids Control Organisation (Naco) has identified 68 main railway stations in districts across 11 states from where migrants usually board long distance trains.
Studies on the relation between Migration and HIV conducted recently by Naco in three popular Migration corridors — Ganjam- Surat, Darbhanga- Delhi and Azamgarh- Mumbai — threw up shocking findings. The highest burden of HIV was f |
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Kicking polio by Malia Politzer
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Critical population
It’s perhaps no surprise that the only two remaining states in which polio is still endemic—UP and Bihar—are also the two Indian states with the largest out-Migration populations.
A study by the Indian Institute of Public Administration estimated the migrant population from Bihar at 5.2 million, much higher than the 3.5 million projected by the National Sample Survey Organisation, and second only to UP.
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Sarpanch stir hits NREGS work by Anindo Dey
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e scheme is concerned.
Even as the Opposition BJP and the ruling Congress try to extract political mileage out of sarpanches agitation, at stake is the very scheme that has not only reduced the Migration of labourers to other states but has also given individual financial power and employment to thousands of women in the state.
If the first blood was drawn by the social audit at Bhilwara that exposed the numerous chinks in the scheme, the |
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Orissa: Child rights body calls on stake holder to expedite RTE execution
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er of OACRC Ranjan Mohanty, Programme Manager, UNICEF Job Zachariah, State Convenor of CACL Binayak Swain ,and Narendra Mishra of SOVA spoke on the occasion.
A report on incidence of child Migration in western Orissa published by Aide at Action was released.
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Reforms helped UP Dalits, says study by Pallavi Singh
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s surveyed had at least one family member, and sometimes more, who was a migrant worker by 2007. They would be working as tailors, masons and drivers or be running a grocery or paan shop.
“Migration is key to this change. Economic growth has led to opportunities in the urban informal sector, driving enhanced Migration, which has meant more money flow into rural Dalit households,” said Prasa |
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Rape, torture by landlords forces Karnataka villagers to flee by Senthalir S
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ago. Women, men, children and the elderly took their possessions and began walking until they reached a settlement abandoned by nomads. For now, they are living in thatched huts.
For them, this Migration is symbolic: a breaking away from sexual harassment, rape and torture by the Gollas and Nayaks. The penniless families had no money to even buy bus tickets to their destination.
Sitting cramped in the huts — two families in each &mda |
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Reluctant migrants by Mahim Pratap Singh
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Bolangir district in Orissa, facing drought conditions since 1965, sees an annual mass Migration of farmers to other States in search of work.
SURESH GOHIR of Bhotapada village in the backward Bolangir district of Orissa consumed pesticide two years ago after his paddy crop failed. He survived the suicide attempt but found life doubly difficult as debt had mounted. Suresh was forced to migrate to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in search of |
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India's 'constant gardeners' by Keya Acharya
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he first time with help from NGO Parmarth, .
“The bonus is that wastelands have now become constructive agricultural lands with a safety system against climate change that has also checked Migration to cities,” says Anil Singh of Parmarth.
In Tajpura, farmers say vermi-composting the same farmyard manure doubles the produce. Ajan Singh and his wife Mamtadevi have managed to save over Rs 80,000 by growing organic vegetables on the |
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Anirudh Krishna, Economist interviewed by Archana Masih
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a Bureau in rural southern Rajasthan. These results are still very preliminary, so I will be able to say more in another few months.
My impression, however, is that while many motives drive the Migration decision, prominent among them is the motive of improving the opportunities available for one's kids.
The pattern of economic growth that we have adopted (and which much of the rest of the world has also adopted) concentrates on new opport |
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Govt Survey Confirms Dismal Educational Quality
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Nadu, the Panchayti Raj institutions are effectively participating in providing primary education.
• Enrolment has gone down in some rural areas of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh due to Migration of people. In Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, enrolment in govt schools in some rural areas has dropped due to parents preferring private schools.
• Children of 7% rural and 20% urban slum families are not enrolled in scho |
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