2025-06-13T14:54:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Society|
đ§ 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 âsmart cityâ tags cannot move water off their streets during rains. Why? Because India doesnât 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 â Education: Time to Burn the Old Playbook đ 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 canât help but smile. She doesnât post for likes, followers, or viral trends. Her feed isnât curated for the worldâitâs 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 WEFâs latest report.  [âŠ]
2024-07-26T10:29:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
More than half of Indiaâs total population (55.6 per cent) is unable to afford a healthy diet, according to the United Nationsâ State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published on July 24, 2024. [âŠ]
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: â The information has been obtained from the minutes of the meetings of the Project Approval Board (PAB) under the Ministry of Education on the âSamagra Shikshaâ programme for 2022-23. [âŠ]
2022-09-18T18:47:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Declining Fertility and Consequence: Global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 Average global fertility has been consistently declining over the past 70 years. The average number of children per woman in the reproductive age group has declined from an average of five children per woman in 1951 to 2.4 children in 2020 (World Population Prospects [...]
2022-09-16T08:03:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy, Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since Independence â from around 32 years in the late 1940s to 70 years or so today. Many countries have done even better, but this is still a historical achievement. Over the same period, the fertility rate has crashed from about six [...]
2022-09-07T07:35:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Background : 1) A few days before India celebrated the 75th year of Independence, Union Minister of Education said in reply to a debate in the Lok Sabha that people should let go of the idea that universities must be funded only by the government. 2) His remarks are only [...]
