HELSINKI: India stands at 44th rank among global IT competitiveness index. The United States continued to lead the global IT industry competitiveness ranking in an annual survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, followed by Finland, Sweden and Canada. The prominence of Finland, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands in the index’s top tier was helped most [...]
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India stands at 44th rank among global IT competitiveness index
Posted in Business India, India Facts, tagged Bangalore, Education, GDP, India, Information Technology, IT on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You don’t have a promise to Keep
Posted in Dalits / Aborigines, Human Rights, India Facts, Minorities, Poverty, tagged AIDS, Children, Dalits, Education, India, MDG, Minorities, Poverty, Tribals on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report 2007 which lauded India’s effort to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it said that the country may fall short because of enormity of the out of schoolchildren.
About half (28 million) of the world’s out of schoolchildren are in four countries including India and Pakistan. And, 30 per cent of those [...]
1 % for health, 3 % for Education : Budget 2008
Posted in India Facts, Poverty, tagged Education, GDP, Globalization, Hindu, Hindutva, India on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cosmetic welfarism will do little to ease rural distress says N.C. Saxena, former secretary, Planning Commission of Government of India
Budget 2008-09 has been presented against the backdrop of a growing recognition that the poor have been left behind in the mad race for high economic growth and getting rich quick. Two facts reinforce the view. [...]
Child mortality: India’s record worse than Bangladesh
Posted in Children, India Facts, Poverty, tagged Bangladesh, Caste System, Children, Education, Hindu, Human Rights, India, Nepal, Poverty on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NEW DELHI: With two million children under the age of five dying every year, India has a dismal record in child mortality.
Now, a new study conducted by Save the Children, which compares child mortality in a country to its national income per person, shows that India lags behind poorer neighbours like Bangladesh and Nepal when [...]
70 % of the disabled in India lives in rural areas
Posted in Human Rights, India Facts, tagged Children, Disabled, Education, Human Rights, India on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Disableds deprived of government aid
The disabled in India comprise only 1.5 percent of the total beneficiaries of various poverty alleviation and welfare schemes, government figures reveal.
Statistics tell the tale of neglect, of how the benefits of many government schemes don’t percolate to the people with disabilities.
Though statutory provisions of the People with Disabilities Act 1995 [...]
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