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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Jun 24, 2019

Encephalitis Spreads

The death toll from acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) reached 152 in Bihar, with medical officials stating that the disease has spread to 20 of the state's 38 districts.
Since the first fatality was reported on June 5, 2019, the state government's response was criticised with many saying that Muzaffarpur's poor healthcare system was overwhelmed by the scale of the outbreak.

Jun 23, 2019

Delhi Government Will Pay CBSE Exam Fee

Delhi government said that it would pay the CBSE examination fee of students from government schools from 2020 onwards.
The government is also working on providing free coaching to students for competitive exams like NEET, JEE, and eventually also for post graduation competitive exams for employment like UPSC and others.
The minister announced the scheme at an event to felicitate government school students who scored 90% and above marks in the class 12 board examinations in 2019.
The students studying in Delhi government schools are from financially weaker families and they cannot afford taking loans from the banks because they demand guarantees.
The Delhi government is ready to take the guarantee of all the talented students studying in its schools.
So, the government decided to give them education loan of up to Rs. 10 lakh for higher education. The students will have 15 years to pay back the loan.
A similar scheme was announced by the government in 2015.

Jun 22, 2019

Tripura to Hand Over Schools to ISKCON Affiliated Trust

The Tripura's BJP-IPFT government has decided to hand over 20 schools to International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKON)-affiliated Indian Tribal Care Trust (ITCT) in a bid to improve quality of education.
The state has total 4,398 government run and aided schools. Of these, 13 schools were shut down due to non-availability of students. Another 147 schools have less than 10 students.
The Indian Tribal Care Trust had requested to hand them over 53 schools. But the government decided to give them 20 schools for five years.
Of the 20 schools, seven each are in West and South districts, three in Sepahijala district, two in Khowai district and one in Gomati district.

Jun 21, 2019

Panipat Villages Get Two Women Colleges

The Haryana state government decided to open two women colleges at Bastali and Bastara villages in the district from the coming academic session. The online admission process for both colleges has already started.
In 2018, two colleges were opened at Taraori and Jundla villages under the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign.
The colleges would function from temporary buildings. While the Bastara college had already received 46 applications the response for the Bastali college was still low with only 21 applications for B.Com and BA courses received so far.

Prisoners' Ward Converted into ICU

Authorities at the government-run Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur converted one of their wards, meant for prisoners, into an intensive care unit (ICU) to accommodate the rising number of children affected by Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), even as the death toll from the brain fever reached 135 in the state.
The move came after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar issued instructions to authorities to create extra space in the hospital after he found that three to four children were being treated on a single bed.

Jun 19, 2019

India to be most Populous by 2027

According to the World Population Prospects 2019 report, India is expected to add 273 million people by 2050, which will be the largest national increase in the world.
China, on the other hand, is expected to become smaller, dropping from its current 1.43 billion people to approximately 1.4 billion by 2050.
However, while India may have the highest absolute increase in numbers, its rate of growth is slowing. The Central and the Southern Asia region, of which India is a part, is expected to see a 25% increase in population between now and 2050.
The rate of population growth is the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, where the fertility rate stand at 4.6 births per woman over a lifetime.

Encephalitis toll Hits 113

Simmering public anger over an outbreak of the acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar spilled over into the streets with protesters heckling Chief Minister Nitish Kumar outside a hospital as one of India's poorest states struggled to fight the disease that killed 10 more children, taking the toll to 113.
In Delhi, activists from different organisations protested outside Bihar Bhawan and demanded Kumar's resignation.
They accused the Centre and the Bihar government of not being serious about containing the outbreak, and said the health-care system in the state was mismanaged.

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