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1.10 Lakh Child Labourers Work on Gujarat’s Fields: NGO Report

By PTI, Published: 09th September 2015 10:06 PM AHMEDABAD: Gujarat accounts for 55 per cent of the country's child labour working in cottonseed production and the total number of children working in such fields has reached 1.10 lakh, according to an NGO study report released here today. The study report was released by two ..... Read More

566 petitions related to child rights’ disposed off in three years

Updated: September 5, 2015 05:36 IST The Tamil Nadu State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has disposed off 566 petitions related to child rights in the past three years, said it’s Commissioner Saraswathi Rangasamy. Addressing reporters here, she said that since the inception of the Commission in 2013, it has ..... Read More

Net authority sought to monitor sexual abuse content on the web

Bengaluru, Sep 06, 2015, DHNS: Two cyber security and safety experts, who are working with the Centre and a few state governments, have called upon the Centre to set up and establish an Internet Authority of India ..... Read More

15,210 children aged 6 to 14 out of school in Goa: Census 2011

Gauree Malkarnekar,TNN | Sep 7, 2015, 09.26 AM IST PANAJI: Almost 27% of Goa's population is enrolled in an educational institute and is pursuing studies of some nature, according to the latest data of Census 2011 released this week. But despite the Right to Education Act making schooling mandatory, 15,210 ..... Read More

Parents form union to fight RTE issues

TNN | Sep 7, 2015, 06.04 AM IST PUNE: Coming under an umbrella to counter admission hurdles under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, parents have formed a union in the city. The union — the first of its kind in the city — conducted its maiden meeting on Sunday after ..... Read More