Vandana Gombar / New Delhi July 18, 2009, 1:22 IST

Govt plans to capture scheme-wise and state-wise actual Plan expenditure.

Here is a one announcement that is likely to be a part of the finance minister

The World Bank has expressed interest in supporting the newly launched Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) scheme for improvement of quality of secondary education in the country.

The Ministry of HRD has agreed to the proposal of the World Bank and has written to Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) for further action, DEA sources said.

Children in 6-14 age group to be enrolled in govt schools

Acting Deputy Commissioner Mandeep Singh Brar has devised a scheme to enroll in government schools all those children of the district who are currently not attending any school.

A nano technology-based solar cell development centre is coming up in the city with the aim to make solar power more affordable.

The Prime Minister

Their friendship with the animal world began on Friday with understanding the behaviour and habitat of different species of primates at the State Zoo here.

The Union Cabinet today cleared the

Indian universities are likely to find themselves under a new oversight body, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal announced last week. Physicist Yash Pal led the committee that recommended setting up a six-member National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) to reform higher education.

This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production. The empirical results show that accumulation of biological human capital prior to a disaster helps children maintain investments during the post-disaster period. Biological

DHENKANAL: The Total Sanitation Campaign has received lukewarm response in Dhenkanal since its inception in 2005 despite availability of funds and infrastructure. So far, only 23 per cent of the district has been covered under the Campaign

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