According to the 2011 Census, around 65.49 million Indians (around 5.4% of India’s population) are living in slums. Additionally, around 17.4% of the total urban Indian population is slum dwellers.It is ironical that while Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan was launched with much fanfare, 360 million of India...
In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to eradicate manual scavenging in India by 2019. On June 15, 2019, four manual scavengers died in his home state, Gujarat. Another two died in Uttar Pradesh. Manual scavenging is defined by the United Nations as, “The practice of manually cleaning, ca...
In 2018, the Aam Admi Party-led Delhi state government’s allocation for education was 26% of its budget. The total allocation for education was `13,997 crore. This was the highest among all the sectors. The state government recently released the ‘Quality Education for All’ report.Manish Sisodi...
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Kanta Chakraborty, a primary school teacher based in Kolkata, West Bengal, has lived this phrase. She is the mentor, guardian and teacher of 20 underprivileged girls between the ages of five and eighteen. Chakraborty wants respectable lives for these girls. S...
The term drug that originally meant medicines, now also connotes fatal narcotics that include cocaine, heroin, brown sugar, and others. The younger generation, particularly teenagers, are the worst victims of drug addiction. Rehabilitation is the process of treatment offered in these cases of drug d...
Twenty years ago, when Dr. Latha A. Krishna launched Virgo Events, little did she imagine that one of her efforts would get her into the Guinness Book of World Records. Known to have stablished the longest standing beauty pageant in this part of the country – Mrs. Chennai, Latha says that the chal...
The concept of Women March is not too dated. In 2017, cities in the US saw large gatherings under the banner of Women March for the first time, protesting against Donald Trump’s presidency. Similar marches took place around the world in the same year; in Europe, South America and Southeast Asia. I...
Siragu celebrated Women’s Day in appreciation, respect and love towards women. On this day besides spreading awareness and acknowledging woman’s contribution to life; society; family and work, we salute their strength, resilience, sacrifice and applaud their roles and achievements. This Women’...
Ten years ago, a corporate honcho who had earlier quit his high-profile job to answer a divine call to his native land, launched his first initiative in 2008 – an educational institution! The first batch of 70 students was enrolled into Swami Vivekananda Rural Community College (SVRCC) at Keezhput...
The state of West Bengal is among the most critically disaster-prone states in India. Various districts of the state like the South and North 24 Parganas, Kolkata, Howrah, Hoogly and East Midnapore are highly exposed to flood and cyclone. The northern districts of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri come unde...
