The country-wide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant issues have led to major violations of civil liberties and human rights in India. While some restrictions on rights may have been necessitated by the nature of the pandemic, we believe that a large number of violations were entirely excessive, arbitrary and totally avoidable. The…
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Every year since 2005, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has reported on the schooling status and the ability to do basic reading and arithmetic tasks for children in the 5-16 age group in rural India. After ten years of producing an annual report, in 2016, ASER switched to an alternate-year cycle where this ‘basic’…
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The key findings of the report titled Rural Health Statistics 2020-21 (released in May 2022), which has been prepared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, are as follows (please click here to access): • As on 31st March, 2021, there were 1,56,101 and 1,718 Sub Centres (SCs), 25,140 and 5,439 Primary Health Centres (PHCs), and 5,481…
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Please click here to access the Draft National Education Policy 2019, which has been prepared under the chairpersonship of Dr. K Kasturirangan. —– Please click here to access the major findings of NSS 75th Round Report: Key Indicators of Household Social Consumption on Education in India, July 2017 to June 2018 (released on 23rd November 2019). Kindly click here to access the…
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The key findings of the report titled India TB Report 2022: Coming Together to End TB Altogether (released in March 2022), which has been produced by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, are as follows (please click here to access): • As per the Global TB Report 2021, the estimated incidence of all forms of TB in…
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The Annual Status of Education Report, ASER 2017: Beyond Basics (released in January, 2018), covers 28,323 youth aged 14-18 years from 23,868 households belonging to 26 rural districts across 24 states. The ASER 2017 collected information for four domains – activity, ability, awareness and aspirations. The key findings of the 12th ASER (i.e. 2017 ASER) are…
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Kindly click here and here to access the Press release by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan dated February 2, 2022 on the Union Health Budget 2022-23. — The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated families and communities and disrupted societies and economies. Patients had to endure various indignities in both public and private hospitals without protections or recourse to adequate preventive and redressal mechanisms. While…
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The Annual Status of Education Report, ASER 2016 (released in January, 2017), covers 589 rural districts. The survey was carried out in 17,473 villages, covering 350,232 households and 562,305 children in the age group 3-16 years. The key findings of the 11th ASER (i.e. 2016 ASER) are as follows (please click here to access): At the national level,…
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The 71st round National Sample Survey on “Social Consumption: Education” was conducted during January to June 2014. The information in the survey was collected from 36,479 households in rural areas and 29,447 households in urban areas during the 71st round. The key findings of the 71st round NSS report: Key Indicators of Social Consumption in India…
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