2021-01-22T23:07:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials, Society|
In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, female labour force participation in India and South Asia was 20.5% and 23.5%, respectively (ILO estimates, World Bank database). Comparable estimates for males were 76% and 77%, respectively. The Middle East and North Africa are the only regions with lower female participation than South [...]
2021-01-24T23:15:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
The key findings from the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) of selected states have reminded us that India is facing a crisis of poor nutrition outcomes. […]
2021-01-22T18:33:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History, Society|
A temple is just another building. It has all the structural elements of a building — floor, walls, pillars, windows, sunshades, roof. But in different forms, shapes and functions; and an aesthetic that evolved over centuries. […]
2021-01-20T23:47:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History, Society|
The grandest temples built by almost every royal dynasty in India is in their capital city — Except the Rashtrakutas. Their capital was Manyakheta; their grandest temple is in Ellora. […]
2021-01-09T22:46:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
A total 114 villages in Odisha have been declared child-marriage free as of January 7 2020 and many more are in line. But this story of change began in a village named Rugudipali in west Odisha's Subarnapur district with support from the courageous Gitanjali Rana, an anganwadi worker in the [...]
2018-02-16T12:21:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The NITI Aayog published nutrition charts on 17 January this year. As India recognises nutrition as a national issue and gears up for the National Nutrition Mission (NNM), publishing such data helps a wide variety of persons associated with the healthcare and nutrition ecosystem in our country to get into action mode [...]
2018-02-06T11:38:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Urbanization is one of the most common global phenomena in the world, and is said to occur in many phases. In the overwhelming majority of cases, urban lifestyles and infrastructure has spread to encompass most human settlements. […]
2017-12-30T02:52:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
In February 2002, the Supreme Court of India passed an order prohibiting state governments and also tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from removing dead, dying trees and grasses and trees felled by winds. […]
2017-11-18T19:11:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
They build our cities and infrastructures yet are invisible to us while hiding in plain sight. […]
2017-11-18T18:59:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The World Bank’s recent flagship World Development Report, 2018 addressed some immediate challenges of quality education. One of the ways that it broke new ground was on the issue of provision for private education. Growing private school enrolment is a global trend and the phenomenon must be taken seriously and [...]
