The report titled ‘COVID-19 Third Wave Preparedness: Children’s Vulnerability and Recovery’ (released on 2nd August, 2021) is the outcome of a two-part series of online consultative meetings hosted by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM, Delhi). These working group consultative meetings largely included stakeholders from diverse backgrounds — Central Government, State Governments, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), social…
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Please click here to access the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on COVID-19 Containment and Management in Peri-urban, Rural and Tribal areas dated 16th May, 2021. The SOP was issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. — The key findings of the report titled Rural Health Statistics 2019-20 (released in April 2021), which has been prepared by the Ministry…
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The Annual Status of Education Report 2014 (released in January 2015) is based on a survey carried out in 16,497 villages, covering 341,070 households and 569,229 children in 577 rural districts of India. The key findings of the ASER 2014 report are as follows (Please click link1, link2 & link3 to access): Enrollment levels and Out-of-school proportions • 2014 is the sixth…
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Kindly click here to access the India Fact Sheet of Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) — Wave-1 (released in 2021), An Investigation of Health, Economic, and Social Well-being of India’s Growing Elderly Population, India Report 2020, prepared by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), National Programme for Health Care Elderly (NPHCE), Harvard TH Chan School of Public…
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The Sample Registration System (SRS) is carried out by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India with the goal of providing accurate annual estimates of birth rates, death rates, child mortality rates and many other indices of pregnancy and fertility and mortality. The SRS has been providing data for the estimation of…
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Please click here to access the FAQ on COVID-19 prepared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Please click here to access the Containment Plan for Large Outbreaks Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has been prepared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. — Please click here to read the Background Note on COVID-19, which was prepared by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA)…
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According to the 11th UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013-14 entitled Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all (please click link 1, link 2 and link 3 to download): • Ethiopia and India have contributed significantly to the overall reduction in out-of-school numbers since 2006. In 2011, India had out-of-school population of 16.74 lakhs whereas in 2006 its out-of-school population…
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The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER-rural) is an annual household survey to assess children’s schooling status and basic learning levels in reading and arithmetic. The 9th ASER 2013 report, facilitated by PRATHAM, covers 550 districts, 15941 villages, 14724 schools, 3.27 lakh households and 5.7 lakh children in the age group 3-16 years. According to…
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The key findings of the 2019 India TB report (released in September 2019), which has been produced by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, are as follows (please click here and click here to access): • The country accounted for a quarter of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden with an estimated 27 lakh cases in 2018. • In 2018,…
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