<p>UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in
NEW DELHI, May 7 – UNICEF has reported arsenic contamination in ground water in 18 districts of Assam and fluoride contamination in five districts. Based on information from Chief Engineer (PHE) of the
Shortage of infrastructure in schools in Bihar was a 'major challenge', state Minister for Education P.K. Sahi said on Saturday adding there was no drinking water facility in around 13000 government schools. Addressing a seminar 'Right of Children and Law', Shahi said several schools had no toilets, even for girl students. ''We have laid stress on improving infrastructural facilities in schools and ensuring quality education,'' he said. Implementation of Right to Education Act for compulsory and free education to children was also another major challenge and said the state would require Rs. 25000 crore every year for implementing the act in Bihar.
The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notices to the Punjab government for May 24 on a petition pleading to declare that oral polio vaccine (OPV) was not properly provided to children, according to international
Nearly 30 million school children in the country still have no access to toilets, even as schools have made significant progress in providing the facility in recent years, a study by UNICEF's Water, Sanitation, Hygiene(WASH) programme revealed on Wednesday. Most schools are also found wanting in teaching of hygiene and life skills.
Ahead of the World Bank's Spring Meetings here this week, government ministers from almost 40 developing countries are meeting with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UK International Development
The latest UNICEF report presents a hard-hitting view of the condition of poor children in urban areas. COMPARISONS between and studies of living conditions in rural and urban India are aplenty, though
The Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) under the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works has launched a ‘total sanitation programme’ in 10 Open Defecation Free (ODF) VDCs — two VDCs each in
While it has made progress on water supply, a high percentage continue to defecate in the open Going by the present pace of progress, India will achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) on sanitation only by 2054. While some States had already achieved the target and some are close to it, other populous States such as Madhya Pradesh and Orissa will reach the target only in the next century, according to WHO and UNICEF's Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMPWSS).
Japan has given United Nations children's fund UNICEF a grant of 120 million Yen, the equivalent to Rs. 7.2 crore, for buying vaccines, supplies, equipment and services in 2012 to ensure India remains free of polio virus. Japan's Ambassador to India Akitaka Saiki and UNICEF India Representative Karin Hulshof signed the Exchange of Note at a ceremony in the Japanese Embassy here. Shinichi Yamanaka, Chief Representative, Japan International Cooperation Agency, India Office, and Ms.
In an interaction with BW’s Rajeev Dubey, Professor S. Mahendra Dev argues why our inclusive growth is far from ‘inclusive’ Both UPA I and UPA II have had identical social objectives: enormously expensive
