Children

According to a recent report by both government and private organisations, today in rural areas there is more than 96.5% enrollment in primary schools, and all over the country, it’s around 88%.

Adoption is as fortunate a connection between parents and children as birth or any other path to parenthood.

While it is common for most of us to scrunch our noses up in disgust at the sight and smell of drainage waters flowing through gutters, these school girls have found a way to generate electricity from drainage water and have developed a micro power generator to facilitate the same.

Each year, Diwali festivities leave the air in the capital thick with deadly smog and suspended particles, posing a serious health threat as they lead to medical problems like breathing issues, allergies and asthma attacks.

Officials said the scheme was planned against the backdrop of Tamil Nadu accounting for the largest number of road accidents in the country.

Earlier, the department used to provide ₹60,000 to ₹1.6 lakh per surgery in private hospitals, but now the upper limit has been extended.

Believing a harmonious world can be achieved through a positive environment and not corporal punishment, Meghana Dabbara and her friends and fellow core team members, Khyathi Chodagiri from Hyderabad, Saumya Katuri (18) from California, and Pranita Garimella (20) from New York started Make The World Wonderful, an NGO with a vision of a world where people live in harmony, starting with children first.

While flight would be the natural reaction of most people, one 7-year-old boy became a local hero after rescuing his friend from a vicious leopard attack in the village of Arathiya in the Gir-Somnath district of Gujarat.

Founded in 2000 as a programme and joint initiative of two NGOs - Public Affairs Centre and Swabhimana, CMCA strives to transform young Indians into concerned, thinking and active citizens for an inclusive and sustainable India.

People Tree Hospital, the Sankalp India Foundation and Cure2Children saved the lives of 50 children who suffered from blood disorder Thalassemia.