2025-10-10T14:35:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Society|
Imagine this: 13,000 applicants, including 42 PhDs, competing for a single constable post in Madhya Pradesh. In Mumbai, 1,846 executive assistant openings at the city municipal office triggered a flood of applications—not just from fresh graduates, but also from seasoned professionals and postgraduates. In Rajasthan, over 3.7 lakh candidates appeared [...]
2025-07-29T22:32:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy, Society|
A true story from Puspal village, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh The skies over Puspal, a small tribal village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, were dark and heavy. The roads were broken, schools were shut, and violence had become a part of everyday life. Most people had lost faith in the government. For them, development [...]
2025-07-25T14:57:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
📰 What is the story? In July 2025, a wedding photo from Himachal Pradesh’s Shillai village went viral. Sunita Chauhan, dressed as a bride, was seen sitting between two grooms—brothers Pradeep and Kapil Negi. Their marriage wasn’t a gimmick or media stunt—it was a revival of an old tribal custom [...]
2025-06-13T14:54:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Society|
💧 A Nation Sinking in Its Own Waste Even after 75 years of independence, over 70% of Indian cities lack basic sewage and garbage disposal systems. Cities with billion-dollar valuations, skyscrapers, and “smart city” tags cannot move water off their streets during rains. Why? Because India doesn’t just have a [...]
2025-06-13T14:55:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
In a world where data is currency and digital tools are the new chalk, this is a crisis, not a statistic. Literacy ≠ Education: Time to Burn the Old Playbook 🎓 What is the soul of education? Is it just about literacy rates, skilling youth for jobs, or reducing unemployment? [...]
2025-06-13T15:13:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
What My Mother Taught Me About Surviving the AI Age When I think of my 67-year-old mother navigating Instagram like a seasoned archivist, I can’t help but smile. She doesn’t post for likes, followers, or viral trends. Her feed isn’t curated for the world—it’s her private vault of memories. With [...]
2025-06-12T22:15:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
India ranked 131 out of 146 in Global Gender Gap Index 2025, drops two places With a parity score of just 64.1%, India is among the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia, according to WEF’s latest report. […]
2024-07-26T10:29:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
More than half of India’s total population (55.6 per cent) is unable to afford a healthy diet, according to the United Nations’ State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published on July 24, 2024. […]
2022-11-11T14:29:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Indian Express|
Background The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage team is in view of an estimated increase [...]
2022-09-26T14:45:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Background: – The information has been obtained from the minutes of the meetings of the Project Approval Board (PAB) under the Ministry of Education on the ‘Samagra Shiksha’ programme for 2022-23. […]
