New Delhi: In 2004, a group of street children and ragpickers got together to make bags from scrap cloth and jute. Now, following a ban on plastic bags, the jute bags made by their organisation Lakhshya Badhte Kadam might just have hit the bull

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New Delhi, Jan 19: The government today declared 24 January as the national girl child day, coinciding with the date of swearing in of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the first woman to occupy the post in the country.

Child labour needs to be redefined. Some of it is need-based, but most of it is greed-based

New Delhi: From next month, if you see a child begging or even selling wares at a traffic intersection in the city, don

NEW DELHI: The country's progress report on education finally makes for happy reading. The Annual Status of Education Report on rural India released by NGO Pratham shows that only 2.7% children in the age group of 7-10 and 6.3% in the 11-14 years group are out of school squarely proving to the success of the government's flagship Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

New Delhi: Indicating a sharp rise in school enrolments in rural India, the Annual Status of Education Report released by NGO Pratham shows that only 2.7% children aged between seven and 10 years, and 6.3% in the 11-14 years group, weren

With varying statistics on the number of kids in child labour (between six to 100 million), the ministry of panchayati raj believes the government needs to follow the Kerala model and use panchayats to track down the status of every child drop-out.