Being Indian best BBC documentary

‘Being Indian’, a documentary revealing that what life is like for the youth of today’s India, has been judged as the best BBC World documentary this year. The TV audiences have selected this documentary as the best BBC documentary.  It was received a total of 18.95 per cent of the votes in the polling conducted by BBC World viewers. 

Rockhopper Television Production, UK, produced the documentary. In the program, the lives of four children from widely different backgrounds in India showed. Their lives with a fast-moving economy were shown with great concentration.

India has half of its population under the age of 35 but the lives are different for youth of different background. The documentary looks into that does the social change and mobility really mean for children of India today. 

Earlier, BBC World had asked its viewers to vote for the most outstanding documentary program shown on the channel this year. The viewers voted in the month of November to his choice. At last, Being India was said as the winner of the voting on BBC world.

 Via Indianexpress

 

 

 

half of rural Bihar still illeterate

According to a recent survey of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), kerala ranks at top among the literate states in India. However, the rural area of Bihar has showed the worst literacy rate. Here half of the people in the age group of 5-29 years never have gone to any educational institution in life.

The ‘Status of Education and Vocational Training in India — 2004-05′ said that India has 64 percent literacy rate during 2004-05. Kerala hast 83 percent literacy rate in its rural areas and 85 per cent literacy rate in its urban areas. Bihar has ranked as the lowest literate among the rural areas of States with only 44 percent literacy rates. On the other hand, the urban literacy rate was lowest in Rajasthan at 64 per cent.

At the same time, the attendance rate was 60 per cent (highest) in Haryana and 42 per cent (lowest) in Orissa. Sixty-three per cent of the students were studying in government institutions. Almost seventeen per cent of students were taking education in private unaided institutions. Fourteen percent were attached to private aided institutes. Only six per cent of those students were attending the local institutions.

According to the survey, in the age group of 15-29 years, two per cent have received formal vocational training and eight per cent have received non-formal vocational training.

The survey says further that in 26 per cent of the rural households and eight per cent of the urban households not a single person is available in the age of 15 years and above who could read and write a simple message with understanding. About 50 per cent of rural households and about 20 per cent of urban had no literate female members of age 15 years and above.

 

Via DNA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tough Law to stop Child marriages

 

Child marriage is banned in India but the story is different on the implementation level. Now, the government of India has taken strong step to tighten laws against child marriage on Tuesday. Now, according to the new bill, Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill 2006, the priests, police or local leaders will be jailed and fined if they will be found indulged in this illegal practice. 

Renuka Chowdhury, minister for women and children, said that the new bill has been passed on Tuesday. It will grant protection to many children forced into marriage every year in the rural parts of the country.

She said in the Lok Sabha, when we tell our children that they cannot vote when they are 15 years of age, we do not allow them to drive or to drink, then how is it that we think that they are capable of getting married. I refuse to accept that any child can give his or her consent. They are children, they are coerced, bullied, black-mailed, emotionally exploited.

The government studies have been showed that more than 65 per cent of girls are getting married before 18 in India. The child marriage causes further high rates of maternal mortality. One woman dies every seven minutes in India because of a pregnancy-related cause.

According to the new bill, people marrying children and people involved in these practices, people abetting or attending a child marriage would face up to two years in prison and a fine of 100,000 rupees. 

The new bill has the provision to appoint child marriage prohibition officers in each of India’s states. They will keep an eye on the practice and will collect evidence to prosecute such cases. Further, Courts have been empowered to rule a child marriage null and void even after many years of the practice. In addition, the husband will be forced to give compensation and residence to his former wife.

 

Via Hindustan Times

 

 

 

 

Reliance ready to take Hutch to be the best

If all goes well according to the Anil Ambani’s planning to take over Hutchison Essar, the Reliance Communications will get the top most position in India’s telecom industry. The Reliance Com. will be the largest telecom company in the country.

With taking control of Hutchison Essar’s GSM mobile services in India, Reliance’s market share would go to more than 36.3 per cent from 20 per cent in terms of GSM and CDMA combined.

If the take over will go through, Rel. Com. will fetch top position from Bharti. Bharti has over 22 per cent of market share and a subscriber base of more than 30.3 million in India. Reliance’s subscriber base will go up from currently 28.6 million to more than 46 million.

Reliance has now the GSM operations in nine circles. It will enter into 16 GSM circles across the country with this take over.

According to Macquaire Research, If the acquisition comes through, Reliance Com. will become market leader in 13 out of the 16 circles where Hutch is operating currently.

The West Bengal and Kolkata will be only overlapped circles where both Hutch as well as Reliance is operating GSM services.

On the financial angle equity the Relinace will have the upper hand over its competitors in this area.

# The Reliance-Hutch has the second highest ARPU (Rs 351) in the business after Bharti (Rs 372).

# Hutch generates the best average revenue per minute and Reliance one of the lowest.

# In the12 of the circles its cost of network operations would be lower than other competitors.

# According to Macquaire Research the combined revenues of Reliance-Hutch will have greater revenue growth.

 

Via Business Standard

first hindu school in UK

United Kingdom is all set to get the first-ever state-funded Hindu School, The Krishna Avanti Primary School, in the country. The school will be opened in September 2008. The proposal for permission to establish the 20-million pounds Hindu institute at Harrow is expected to be passed in next month. 

I-foundation is the charity organization that is promoting to establish the school. Nitesh Gor, Director of I-foundation, said that in January, we will be applying for the planning permission and it will take a few months for the Local Council to take it up for consideration. 

Nitesh Gor said that a team of expert educationists is presently looking at various aspects to establishing the institution such as incorporating Hindu ethics and values. It will be in the approved national core curriculum and will be taught at the institution.

He said further that at the beginning, the school would start from the nursery and the first year. Later, the school will be adding a class every year with 30 students. The British government would provide 85 per cent of the grants for the school. The rest of 15 per cent would be collected by the foundation through donations. 

Currently, in UK, there are many voluntary aided schools working for every other major religion. Harrow has the maximum numbers of Hindu population in England and Wales that is more than 40,000.

Via Times of India

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