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Why is India lagging behind in children’s education?        

The reason we are backward is that there are too many programs functioning independent of each other and there is poor budgetary commitment

NARSINGHPUR, JUNE 9 (UNI)- A doctor checking-up a child at the primary health centre after complaints of diarrhea and vomiting, as at least 50 children and some adults were affcted after eating allegedly contaminated ice cream at Tikri and Gotegaon villages in Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. UNI PHOTO-81U

By Keerty Nakray

The past two decades have been marked by several social policy innovations across India. At the national level, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) have been initiated by the government to universalize primary and secondary education across the country. SSA is being implemented in partnership with states to cover the entire country and address the needs of 192 million children in 1.1 million habitations. UNICEF and the State Council Education, Research and Training will roll out RMSA by 2015-16. For girls living under the Below Poverty Line (BPL), the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya is available which provides them residential education along with training in skills development. And yet, a lot needs to be done to raise education levels.

Several state governments have also initiated specific programs such as Bihar’s Mukhyamantri Bicycle Scheme which is a conditional cash transfer and welfare scheme that awards Rs 2,000 to every student enrolled in Class IX in a government high school and is meant to purchase a bicycle. In 2005-2006, free bicycles were distributed to students belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and those below the poverty line. In West Bengal, the Department of Education has initiated several schemes such as separate girls’ toilets under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan.

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However, several bottlenecks remain in the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) in terms of quality of education, poor school results and poor rates of completion of upper primary education amongst socially marginalized groups such as girls, children in rural areas and those belonging to minority groups and from the poorest sections of society.

According to UNICEF (2014), an estimated 8.1 million children are still out of school, the majority belonging to disadvantaged groups. Despite achieving close to universal enrolment at the primary level, 27 percent of children drop out between classes I and V, 41 percent before reaching Class VIII, and 49 percent before Class X. These figures are higher for children from Scheduled Castes (27 percent, 43 percent and 56 percent respectively) and Scheduled Tribes (36 percent, 55 percent and 71 percent, respectively).

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Gender discrimination too persists in education as, for every 100 boys enrolled in secondary education there are only 81 girls enrolled. Worse, less than half (47 percent) of Class V students can read textbooks from Class V. Children’s attendance rate in rural primary schools has shown a decline from 73 percent in 2007 to 71 percent in 2012. Forty-one percent of primary schools have a pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) of more than 30, and 31 percent of upper primary schools have a PTR of more than 35. Other concerns include safety issues in conditions of civil unrest and use of corporal punishment across the country.

On the surface, the presence of so many schemes seems to indicate that India has embarked towards a more child-friendly approach to social policy. However, much of the government’s focus has been on schemes to ensure bare minimal nutritional needs of pregnant and lactating mothers or provision of pre-natal and post-natal care in terms of nutritional support, encouraging women to give birth in hospitals and immunization.

REDUCED ALLOCATION

The Integrated Child Development Scheme receives the bulk of government spending apart from polio immunization funds. In terms of expenditure on social well-being of children, that on the SSA, a supplementary education program, has seen a marginal increase in budget from Rs 10,671 crore to Rs 15,000 crore. According to HAQ Centre for Child Rights, an NGO, in spite of the staggering number of orphan children, there was a 74.6 percent reduction in the budget allocation for the Central Adoption Resource Agency. The scheme—Inclusive Education for Disabled at Secondary Stage—has also seen a decline in budgetary allocations.

The International Labour Organization’s World Social Protection Report, “Building Economic Recovery, Inclusive Development and Social Justice 2014-2015”, has drawn attention yet again to the poor provision of social protection for children in developing economies. Globally, governments allocated 0.4 percent of their GDP to children and family benefits, ranging from 2.2 percent in western Europe to 0.2 percent in Africa and Asia and the Pacific. In UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2014 report, India has the poorest children’s outcomes among BRICS countries.

The Sustainable Development Goals (2015) list a range of goals that include reduction in poverty, hunger, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, and reduction of inequalities which have serious implications for achieving universal health and education among children. In order, to meet these targets, the government will have to shift its focus to not only improving food security, education and health but also address other domains of well-being such as access to recreation and freedom from abuse.

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Pro and basic models in the iPhone 15 lineup may have more distinctions

According to reports, the sales fall for the current non-pro models is much greater than what Apple’s external environment had expected.

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At the ‘Far Out’ event in September of this year, Apple unveiled the iPhone 14 series, which includes four new models. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro were smaller models when they were first released by Apple, whereas the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro Max had larger screens.

Early market indicators were indicative of weak demand for non-Pro models. According to a recent rumour, Apple is reportedly “extremely” worried about how the iPhone 14 Plus is selling and is trying to implement new marketing tactics to make up for it when the next iPhone series is released.

According to a recent story on the South Korean blog Naver, Apple is “seriously” contemplating new tactics for the future iPhone 15 lineup and is “seriously” considering how well the iPhone 14 Plus is selling. According to reports, the sales fall for the current non-pro models is much greater than what Apple’s external environment had expected.

First, Apple should think about lowering the price difference between pro models and entry-level devices. This is consistent with analyst Ross Young’s assertion that all iPhone models could get the Dynamic Island feature next year, which is now only accessible on iPhone 14 Pro models.

Future iPhone models’ pricing may also change, according to Apple, and “the price will be determined differently than it is currently.” It might lower the cost of the 2023 lineup’s Plus model. The starting pricing for the iPhone 14 Plus in India is Rs. 89,900. The starting price for the iPhone 14 Pro Max, in contrast, is Rs. 1,39,900.

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Ming-Chi Kuo, a well-known analyst, had already predicted that Apple would widen the gap between professional and non-professional iPhone models even more and include unique features in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The business plans to raise the average selling price (ASP) of iPhone devices, according to Kuo.

The blog post also claims that there will be a clear distinction between the pro model and the max in terms of materials and camera components. This supports earlier rumours that stated the iPhone 15 Pro Max model would include a titanium chassis and a periscope zoom camera. It is anticipated that solid-state buttons would replace the traditional volume and power buttons on the high-end iPhone 15 devices.

The basic iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max models are rumoured to be part of Apple’s 2023 iPhone portfolio. Apple’s upcoming A17 Bionic chip is anticipated to power the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The A16 Bionic chip might be found in the non-Pro variants.

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Want to move on from your unworthy ex before Valentine’s Day? Name a cockroach after your ex and watch it eaten alive for just THIS much

As Valentine’s week nears, many couples are excited to celebrate their love and romance. However, this is not the case for everyone. A lot of people despise the concept of Valentine’s because of past relationship trauma and unworthy exes.

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As Valentine’s week nears, many couples are excited to celebrate their love and romance. However, this is not the case for everyone. A lot of people despise the concept of Valentine’s because of past relationship trauma and unworthy exes. What if you were told that there is a way to get your cockroach of an ex eaten by animals, alive? No, this will not murder your ex in reality, but you will never find a better way to move on.

The San Antonio Zoological Society has come up with an idea for people to name a cockroach or rat after their ex-boyfriend or girlfriend. The event is called Cry Me a Cockroach, which is organised every year on Valentine’s Day. The society took to their Twitter handle and said that if people donate, their ex will be fed to an animal. They will also receive certificates.

There are some zoos in Pennsylvania, like Lehigh Valley Zoo, where people are allowed to name a bug after their former boyfriend or girlfriend. After this, these bugs are fed to their animals. All of this is done for just $5 or Rs 374.

Lehigh Valley Zoo came up with this brilliantly vicious, yet harmful idea, and took to their official Twitter handle to advertise. They said that they get it that sometimes, love sucks. So instead of feeling down that their love may not last forever, people should put a twist on Valentine’s Day and name a bug after their ex. They mentioned that all people have to do is to make a $5 donation to name one of the feeder crickets, and they will feed them to their ambassador animals. The offer is open till February 14, 2022.

This is not it. The Lehigh Zoo Website will also upload weekly videos on Facebook for people to see their ex’s big-avatar getting eaten.

Indeed, for every undeserving ex, there is a bug waiting to be eaten.

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Ensure nutrition supplement ad wins hearts, Tweeple say video taught them a lot | WATCH

In this era of ads where some advertisements are really praised for their inclusivity while the others are being criticised, Ensure (an American brand of nutritional supplements) have also come up with a very heart touching advertisement in this festive season.

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In this era of ads where some advertisements are really praised for their inclusivity while the others are being criticised, Ensure (an American brand of nutritional supplements) have also come up with a very heart touching advertisement in this festive season.

The video is on fleek and it’s being liked and shared by people a lot on social media, soon it came out. Tweeple are appreciating and twitting this viral video with good compliments.

In this inspiring advertisement, we can see a man making a list of guests, asking her wife for one of his specific friends on the occasion of the festival but her wife denies informing him about the long list and work overload, the man then make her a cup of hot tea made of Ensure milk powder, saying that we should thank the people who took time for us when nobody did. This cute message is liked by the people and Twitter is flooded with appreciation posts with the hashtag StrongerInsideOut.

One person tweeted that this video taught him to come up front, help people and celebrate. Have a look :

The other Twitter user wrote about the amazing initiative of this video and appreciated this.

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What is Ensure?

Ensure is an American for nutritional supplements and replacements for meals. This brand, Ensure is manufactured by Abbott Laboratories.

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Ensure Original contains 220 calories, six grams of saturated fat, 15 grams of sugar, and nine grams of protein in a 237-ml (8-fl oz) bottle. Water, corn maltodextrin, sugar, milk protein concentrate, canola oil, and soy protein isolate are the top six ingredients in Ensure original. For people with lactose intolerance can also take this as Ensure is considered lactose-free.

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