GS Paper: Health & Education
Health & Education
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Mother and Child Health – Immunization Program, BPBB, PMJSY, PMMSY, etc.
Empowering the girl child
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Swachh Bharat Mission
The mission seeks to eliminate open defecation, eradicate manual Scavenging, modern and scientific municipal solid waste management. It also seeks to effect behavioral change regarding healthy sanitation practices, to generate awareness about sanitation and its linkage with public health.
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Transition From MDG to SDG: Issues & Concern
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a proposed set of targets relating to future international development. They will replace the Millennium Development Goals, as they expire at the end of 2015.
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Higher Education – RUSA, NIRF, HEFA, etc.
In India, education is in the concurrent list, where federal states and the central government share responsibilities. Until recently, legislations in higher education prohibited profit making in the sector. Higher education was defined as a not-for-profit sector.
The UGC under the Department of Higher Education in the MHRD acts as the coordinator as well as prescriber of standards for education in the country.
