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With almost 19,000 children under five years of age dying every day across the world, India tops the list of countries with the highest number of 16.55 lakh such deaths in 2011, according to a UN agency.
The ‘Child Mortality Estimates Report 2012′ released by Unicef in New York has said that in 2011, around 50 percent of global under-five deaths occurred in just five countries of India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and China.
Incidentally, India’s toll is higher than the deaths in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan put together.
While there have been 7.56 lakh deaths in Nigeria during the last year, Democratic Republic of the Congo accounts for 4.65 lakh deaths and Pakistan 3.52 lakh deaths of under-five children during 2011.
China reported 2.49 lakh deaths of under-5 kids last year, followed by 1.94 lakh by Ethiopia and 1.34 lakh each by Indonesia and Bangladesh. Uganda with 1.31 lakh such deaths and Afghanistan with 1.28 lakh deaths held the ninth and 10th position in the list of 10 top countries reporting under-five children deaths.
Singapore with a mortality rate of 2.6 has the lowest under-five deaths, while Slovenia and Sweden followed it with a mortality of 2.8.
The Unicef report also states that globally Pneumonia is the leading killer of children under five, causing 18 per cent of all under-five deaths worldwide – a loss of roughly 1.3 million lives in 2011, the bulk of which occur in just two regions, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Globally, the five leading causes of deaths among children under five include pneumonia (18 percent); pre-term birth complications (14 per cent); diarrhoea (11 percent); intrapartum-related complications (9 percent) and malaria (7 percent).
Besides, more than a third of child deaths are attributable to undernutrition globally, the report states.
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Suicide has become the second leading cause of death of young people in India, which has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to a study published in Lancet.
“Suicide kills nearly as many Indian men aged 15-29 as transportation accidents and nearly as many young women as complications from pregnancy and childbirth,” said the study’s lead author Vikram Patel, of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Transport accidents are the leading cause of deaths in men (about 14 percent) in India while maternal disorders are the main cause of deaths among women (about 16 percent), the study said.
After that suicide is the second leading cause of death of young people in India – 13 percent in men and 14 percent in women.
It was noted that about half of suicide deaths (49 percent among men, and 44 percent among women) were due to poisoning, mainly ingesting of pesticides. Hanging was seen to be the second most common cause for men and women, while burns accounted for about one-sixth of suicides by women.
With decline in maternal death rates, suicide could soon become the leading cause of death among young women, he said, noting further that public health interventions such as restrictions in access to pesticides might prevent many suicide deaths in India.
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In a Nation Where we all talking about democracy, means “For the People, By the people and To the people”
In many ways its true but sad part of the story is in worlds 2nd lagest democracy we discriminate people on the base of gender. We as a Nation called developing country but the mind of Indain male is not so developed. Indian is still a male dominated country, but a women originated too in ways of crime we had on women.
On the other hand Indian women is no where behind than a men. Infect in many ways they are for more ahed than them. And such things are not acceptable to the Indian men who believe superior than women.
After a Delhi gang rape case indian society become more unsecured about women and their sefty. Each state come up with helpline number for women and their safty purposes. We are working on the other side of coin. INDIAN WOMEN don’t need to helpline number to call on problem. They want safe and respectful environment where they live fearless.
Recently Gujarat government started a helpline number for whom safty which allow polic to inform within a second. But we forget the one they are calling for help is a male who believe himself superior than womem..
Its a shame on the Nation and their Educated males who always believe in doing top class job but their mindset is still lower middle class..
Ending on the slogan of an NGO who makes me feel it should be Implement as soon as possible..
“Nazar teri buri Aur parada mai karu, Don’t tell us how to dress. Tell them not to rape”
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The recent Delhi gang rape has evoked a sense of ‘urge to react’ amongst Indian youth. People in the western countries and other parts of the world feel that India is not a safe place for a woman and as a matter of fact this notion cannot be proved wrong. Though women in India feel it less safe to travel or even speak up, the country boasts about nurturing great women entrepreneurs.
Recently, Dell conducted a study on ‘Women Global Entrepreneurship’; it said there are optimism from women entrepreneurs in India who expect median business growth of 90 percent. “We have found the ideal country for a woman starting a business could well be India,” says Amit Midha, Dell’s Chairman for Global Emerging Markets.
Recapping to the rich Indian history one can derive into a conclusion that Indian women have surpassed all barriers to prove their worth to the world. Great freedom fighters like Rani Lakshmi Bhai, Rani of Jhansi and Kitturu Rani Chennamma have showed the world that ‘women’ are no less in terms of courage and will power.
With such great personalities achieving and conquering impossible heights, it is now turn for women in India to act smarter by setting these immortal figures as their role models to change the current face of India.
While foreign medias boast about Indian women entrepreneurship scenario by launching various ‘rich and powerful lists’, it is painful to know the actual truth that the women in this country, at some parts are never given any freedom or liberty and some societies still consider them to be under men. Powerful Indian women entrepreneurs,” have skillfully transformed various industrial sectors and it also brings great pride to know that few Indian political and industrial women leaders are looked up to in a global level.
Amidst many painful situations, India is also seeing new female faces doing a spectacular job in various verticals of entrepreneurship.
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Even as it acknowledges India as the world’s most populous democracy, the Economist magazine’s Index of Democracy 2012 ranks India 38th among 165 nations with an overall score of 7.52.
India also gets high scores for electoral process and pluralism (9.58) and Civil liberties (9.41).
The top three positions go to Norway (9.93) Sweden (9.73) and Iceland 9.65, while the United States is ranked 21st with an overall score of 8.11 in the fifth edition of the Index prepared by the London weekly focusing on international politics and business.
Noting the wide disparities in democratic development across Asia, the report says “although parts of the region – from North Korea and Laos, to Vietnam and China – are still entrenched authoritarian regimes, the past couple of decades have seen the spread of democracy in the region overall.”
Over the past decade, some 20 Asian countries have held elections, and many have undergone peaceful transitions in government.
Despite its problems, India remains the world’s most populous democracy,” the report said noting. “Yet even in the democratic countries, there are often significant problems in the functioning of political systems.”
“The U.S. and the UK remain at the bottom end of the full democracy category,” the report said. “The U.S. democracy has been adversely affected by a deepening of the polarisation of the political scene and political brinkmanship and paralysis. The UK is beset by a deep institutional crisis.”
“The unprecedented rise of movements for democratic change across the Arab world led many to expect a new wave of democratization,” it said. “But it has become apparent that democracy in the region remains a highly uncertain prospect.”
Popular confidence in political institutions continues to decline in many European countries, it said noting in Eastern Europe democracy declined in 10 countries in 2012.
When the entire nation is madly running behind political, economical and criminal issues that sometime gain international interest, there still exists a ‘large community’ that has been deprived of clean water, unpolluted air and even a little real estate to keep their foot on. Surrounded by towering skyscrapers of Mumbai’s most sophisticated localities, is Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi. The word ‘Dharavi’ brings to us a mixed feeling, sometimes sympathy and honestly sometimes disgust. Though this is generally the known face, it has a complete different side, where they nurture and develop great entrepreneurial talents.
Jameel Shah, from the slums of Dharavi who now owns a shoe factory, designing and manufacturing custom made shoes for celebrities including Kajol, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor and international stars like Kylie Minogue, as reported by BS.
Early Life:
Jameel Shah was born to a poor farmer as the eldest of eight kids, in Bihar. This young man like any other person had his own set of problems to deal with.
Frustrated with things around young Shah decided to flee and hopped on to a train that took him to Delhi. In Delhi, Shah worked in a garment factory that manufactured wallets and belts. He learnt his work quickly and during free times he sat before a TV watching bollywood cinemas and fantasizing on becoming a top notch choreographer in bollywood.
Shah always kept dance close to his heart and worked towards it but when he realized that Delhi will do no good to him he decided to move on and chose Mumbai this time.
At Dharavi:
Mumbai, as popularly known as the city of dreams, had nothing much to offer him, except a job in a local garment factory with lots of hope, passion and commitment. While everything was working fine a disaster struck Shah, he had loaned out Rs. 2000 to his friend who absconded which left him with no money altogether.
Shah started working in the garment factory with utmost commitment which brought him enough money to even hang out in five star hotels, but he blew up all his earnings at posh hotels expecting to meet a movie star who would change his future.
As an Entrepreneur:
Blowing up all money was the stupidest thing Shah did. He came to a situation where he had no money and shelter. Shah did not give up and found a new job as a night watchman for an apartment. This would have been devastating to anybody else but this optimistic man did not give up. Here again, he was liked by everybody and one day one of the occupants took him to a salsa workshop. Since he had always kept dance close to his heart he realized that this was the perfect opportunity for him to enter the film industry and become a choreographer.
Shah tried learning dance but he could not afford to pay the fees but looking at his enthusiasm and interest, Sandeep Soparrkar took him as a trainee for free.
It all began when one day Shah’s dance teacher needed shoes, as he had ordered for costly pair from London for Rs.12,000 and the good was not delivered. Taking the right step forward, Shah, with all his garment factory experience, tried making shoes for his teacher with all the available material, originally from Dharavi.
The Journey:
His teacher was not really happy with the shoes made by Shah. He tried making them again but this again did not impress him. After rejecting the shoes made by Shah for thirteen times his teacher found something really great in the fourteenth pair. He was more impressed when he realized that the cost of pair was just Rs.2000. With great compliments from his teacher, Shah decided to make twelve more pairs with which he slowly established a shoe-making company.
After establishing his business, Shah struggled a bit to get more customers but only until he received a call from Hindi cinema actor, Priyanka Chopra, who wanted a pair of custom designed boots. Since then there was no looking back as he is flooded with work, especially designing and making custom made shoes for stage performances, reality shows, dance events and of course bollywood celebrities including Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu, Farah Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Kajol, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and also for international stars like Kylie Minogue.
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Despite high claims of zero dropout ratios in the state primary sector due state’s school enrolment drives and other programs like Kanya Kelavani (girl child education) drives the state is officially having 7.08% school drop out ratio in standard 1 to standard 7th.
In a written response to senior Congress MLA and party whip Balwantsinh Rajput, the education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama told that during the 2011-12 school drop out ratio of girls were 7.82% and in boys 7.35% and total ratio was 7.56%. In 2012-12 it was 7.37% in girls, 6.87% in boys and overall dropout ratio was 7.08%.
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Kerala, which stands out from the rest of India with 94 percent literacy rate, has achieved another distinction of having the lowest dropout rate of school students in the country at just 0.53 percent.
The hilly district of Wayanad with a sizeable scheduled tribes population had the highest overall dropout rate of more than one percent, while in all the other 13 districts the rate was less than 0.5 percent, shows an economic review report by the State Planning Board (SPB).
The latest report shows that currently there are 12,644 schools in the state of which 4,620 are government-run, 7,161 are aided schools and 863 are non-aided schools. The thickly populated Muslim district of Malappuram with 1,427 schools had the most number of schools in any district.
However, enrolment of students in the current fiscal decreased by six percent over the previous year and touched 39.86 lakh. The SPB report attributed this decline to the changes in the demographic pattern owing to low birth rate in the state.
While the national birth rate figure stands at 22.1 per 1,000, in Kerala it is 14.8 per 1,000.
The total number of teachers in schools dropped marginally from 1,68,062 in 2010-11 to 1,66,939 in 2011-12.
Another feature highlighted by the report that remained unchanged in the state is that 71.5 percent of all the teachers are women.
The pass percentage of students in the higher secondary courses was 88 percent in 2011-12, up from 82 percent in 2010-11.
With regard to facilities in schools, it was found that 99 percent of the government schools have access to drinking water facility and 99.7 percent have urinal/latrine facilities.
It has also been found that 162 government schools in the state do not have their own building.
The fund allocation in the school education sector in the state rose from Rs.189 crore during the 10th Plan period to Rs.712 crore during the 11th plan, the report said.
In the state budget presented by Finance Minister K.M. Mani, he made a proposal to set aside Rs.581 crore for improving the quality of school infrastructure, and academic and student-centric programmes.
The State Planning Board, however, cautioned that the state needs to focus on second generation reforms to ensure that higher education is attuned to the global employment opportunities and not be complacent of the state’s achievements.
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Air pollution is the fifth largest killer in India taking 6.2 lakh lives per year and Delhi is among one of the five most critically polluted regions in the country, said a study by a U.S.-based health institute.
The other four most critically polluted regions in the country were noted to be Ghaziabad, Gwalior, West Singbhum district in Jharkhand and Raipur, according to the study. The study has claimed that 6.2 lakh premature deaths in India occur due to air pollution-related diseases, a six-fold increase as compared to that in the year 2000.
It said air pollution had also turned out to be the fifth leading cause of death in the country, after high blood pressure, indoor air pollution, tobacco smoking and poor nutrition. Global Burden of Disease (GDB) report by U.S.-based Health Effect Institute has ranked air pollution as one of the top ten killers in the world, and sixth most dangerous killer in South Asia.
Sunita Narain, Director General CSE, said “6.20 lakh premature deaths occur in India from air pollution-related diseases. This is a shocking and deeply disturbing news. This calls for urgent and aggressive action to protect public health.”
The report said that Delhi is among the troubled cities suffering from multi-pollutant crisis. “Delhi is definitely there, Kolkata is there and there are small towns where we are seeing what we call multi-polutant crisis,” it said.
Happiness
It is the art of living, the purpose of our existence. Happiness is the true index of quality of life. Without happiness, life is dry and meaningless. With happiness, life immediately becomes fulfilling and wonderful. Happiness is an infectious feeling that immediately lifts the sagging spirits of people. Happy people keep themselves happy because they know the little ways to appreciate themselves and to see the humor and magic in each moment.
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Pencil: I’m sorry….
Eraser: For what? You didn’t do anything wrong.
Pencil: I’m sorry because you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you’re always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.
Eraser: That’s true. But I don’t really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I’ll be gone and you’ll replace me with a new one, I’m actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad. 
I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They’re always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way… they get hurt, and become smaller (older, and eventually pass on). Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.
This is for all parents out there…
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