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Once known for drought & rejecting girl child, this village is now green haven that celebrates every girl born. All because one father turned his daughter's death into revolutionA father's grief over the loss of his daughter sparked a remarkable movement in a village in Rajasthan. Today, Piplantri celebrates the bir...- Exclusion of married daughter from definition of 'family' manifestly arbitrary: SCThe Supreme Court has ruled that married daughters are eligible for compassionate appointments. The court found excluding them from the def...
- India advances Sustainable Development Goals with clean energy, sanitation, and inclusive growthIndia stands at the forefront of sustainable development innovation. Noteworthy achievements include the complete eradication of open defec...
- Experts call for stronger policies to boost women's participation in platform economyNITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani emphasized that skill development and increased women's participation are crucial for India's economic gro...
- India's gender budgeting progress: Are we truly empowering women?India's gender-responsive budgeting has increased allocations but lacks the necessary systemic reforms and mandatory frameworks across gove...
- It pays to fix gender wage disparitySome of these factors are addressed by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme that acted as a ballast d...
- The state of inequality in IndiaIn India, the Periodic Labour Force Survey for the years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 shows that the top 10% earn approximately equal to th...
- India making collective efforts to reduce gender gap in labour force participation: Santosh GangwarGangwar was delivering Ministerial Address on Declaration and Employment Working Group Priorities at G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' M...
- View: Assessing India’s gender budgetIn efforts to integrate GRB in India’s budgeting process, the Government of India introduced the Gender Budget Statement (GBS) in the Union...
- Launch urban employment guarantee scheme: Jean Dreze to govtThe suggestion was made by Dreze at a three-day International Conference on Gender Equality (ICGE II 2021), organised by the Gender Park un...
- Budget 2020: The need for gender budgetingAs education and health outcomes improve, women's barriers to entry in joining the workforce would reduce. This would reverse the worrying ...
- Gender budget allocation increases by Rs 9,739 crore in Budget 2019While the National Nutrition Mission has received a big boost of Rs 3,400 crore, anganwadi services and the Integrated Child Development Sc...
- 50 lakh girls empowered by Kanyashree scheme, says Mamata Banerjee"More than 50 lakh girls have been empowered through this scheme which has a budget of Rs 5600+ crores," she said on her Twitter handle.
- Special treatment for women entrepreneurs under UDAN scheme: Aviation SecyThe remarks were made by Civil Aviation Secretary R N Choubey in a video message at an event here to celebrate International Women's Day to...
- Budget 2016: To really transform India, focus on women firstMarkers like allocations for women’s ministries and Gender Budget Statement (GBS) can help assess the gender responsiveness of this Budget.
- President Pranab Mukherjee to inaugurate Gender park on February 27India's first gender equality convergence center, will be inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee here on February 27.
- Government's one year in office: Mega battle plans for Modi’s Beti Bachao dreamThe genesis of the government's Beti bachao beti padhao (BBBP) scheme was this: Giving girls a chance to be born, to be loved and to grow.
- Income inequality in India lowest among emerging nations: OECDIndia had the lowest income gap, of the nine emerging economies studied by OECD, followed by Russia, Indonesia, Columbia and South Africa.
- PM Narendra Modi to launch 'Beti Bachao' scheme with a bang on January 22The scheme will be launched by PM on January 22 and will focus on a multi-sectoral approach to tackling the problem of the vanishing girl c...
- 'Vested interests setback to India's poverty reduction quest'The economist said it was "ironical" that during the peak period of the country's development, the corresponding indexes for poverty reduct...
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