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6.54 Crore Indian Children Never Attended School: Census 2011
As many as 6.54 crore people in the age group of 5-19 years in the country have never attended any school, while another 4.49 crore have dropped out of schools in the last decade.
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Religious Census 2011: Hindus Below 80% For First Time, Muslim Growth Rate Falls
The government has revealed the results of a 2011 religion-based census, a year after it was ready for release.
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Highlights of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 for Rural India
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday released the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) and said that it would be an important input for policy makers.
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Newborn girl's body found in dustbin
The body of a newborn girl was found in a dustbin in Jaipur on Tuesday, bringing to fore the plight of the girl child in a state that suffers from a skewed sex ratio.
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This summer, Kashmir to fight murderers of another kind
Newspaper advertisements, TV messages, raids on ultrasound clinics, door-to-door campaigns are underway. Shamed by the dismal sex ratio revealed by the latest census report, the Jammu and Kashmir government is trying every trick in the book to save the girl child in the state.The census report, released in March, reveals there are only 859 fe...
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Sex ratio means men may have to turn gay: Farooq
Concerned over the growing uneven sex ratio in the country, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah today said there will be a day when men will have "no girls to marry" and they may have to turn "gay"."The day is not far when there will be no girls to marry and we'll all become gays. That might happen," he said, while trying to drive home the point that th...
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Census 2011: Girl child at risk as sex ratio declines
It must have been welcome news for the government as the newly-released census showed a significant slowing of the population growth rate for the first time in nine decades. But, that hasn't changed anything for the girl child who continues to be at risk.Despite several policies to protect the girl child, their number below six years of age has fal...
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Census 2011: Transgenders prepare to be counted for first time
When census officials hit the road for the mammoth task of counting the billion plus people, transgenders will ensure they are counted for the first time ever, after the government decided on their inclusion in the 2011 population count as a separate category. Transgenders' addition in the census process in the 'others...
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6.54 Crore Indian Children Never Attended School: Census 2011
As many as 6.54 crore people in the age group of 5-19 years in the country have never attended any school, while another 4.49 crore have dropped out of schools in the last decade.
-
Religious Census 2011: Hindus Below 80% For First Time, Muslim Growth Rate Falls
The government has revealed the results of a 2011 religion-based census, a year after it was ready for release.
-
Highlights of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 for Rural India
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday released the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) and said that it would be an important input for policy makers.
-
Newborn girl's body found in dustbin
The body of a newborn girl was found in a dustbin in Jaipur on Tuesday, bringing to fore the plight of the girl child in a state that suffers from a skewed sex ratio.
-
This summer, Kashmir to fight murderers of another kind
Newspaper advertisements, TV messages, raids on ultrasound clinics, door-to-door campaigns are underway. Shamed by the dismal sex ratio revealed by the latest census report, the Jammu and Kashmir government is trying every trick in the book to save the girl child in the state.The census report, released in March, reveals there are only 859 fe...
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Sex ratio means men may have to turn gay: Farooq
Concerned over the growing uneven sex ratio in the country, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah today said there will be a day when men will have "no girls to marry" and they may have to turn "gay"."The day is not far when there will be no girls to marry and we'll all become gays. That might happen," he said, while trying to drive home the point that th...
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Census 2011: Girl child at risk as sex ratio declines
It must have been welcome news for the government as the newly-released census showed a significant slowing of the population growth rate for the first time in nine decades. But, that hasn't changed anything for the girl child who continues to be at risk.Despite several policies to protect the girl child, their number below six years of age has fal...
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Census 2011: Transgenders prepare to be counted for first time
When census officials hit the road for the mammoth task of counting the billion plus people, transgenders will ensure they are counted for the first time ever, after the government decided on their inclusion in the 2011 population count as a separate category. Transgenders' addition in the census process in the 'others...
