The Gender Gap in Literacy in Rajasthan
Rajasthan has narrowed but not closed its literacy gender gap. In the fifth National Family Health Survey, just over half of women aged 15–49 were literate against roughly three-quarters of…
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Rajasthan has narrowed but not closed its literacy gender gap. In the fifth National Family Health Survey, just over half of women aged 15–49 were literate against roughly three-quarters of…
The Employment of Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 prohibits manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks and the practice of manual scavenging itself. A second Act, the Prohibition…
The western and central districts of Rajasthan speak the Rajasthani group of Indo-Aryan dialects — Marwari, Mewari, Dhundhari, Shekhawati and Hadoti among them. Hindi is the language of administration, schooling…