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Health
NFHS-6 shows child stunting fell to 29.3%, down from 35.5%. But nutrition-specific schemes only fix a third of the problem. The other two-thirds runs through sanitation, maternal anaemia, and dietary diversity, where India's own data shows the real gaps remain.
Poverty
India's entrance exams are formally free of tuition and effectively priced. The coaching economy that sits between a school syllabus and a rank list is the largest hidden education expense most families carry, and it decides outcomes before the exam begins.
Education
Weeks of youth led protest through June and July 2026 ended with a resignation. The five demands the movement put forward were far more specific than the coverage suggested, and four of them can be implemented without new legislation.
Education
India's 2026 school audit found that only 10 to 15 per cent of government school teachers score above 60 per cent in the subject they are paid to teach. That finding is about the system that trained them, not about them.
Gender Equality
India's 2026 school audit found close to 99,000 schools with no separate toilet for girls. That single missing facility explains more adolescent dropout than most education policy debates admit.
Education
India cancelled its national medical entrance exam on 12 May 2026 after a circulated guess paper matched the real one. Here is what that decision cost the families who sat it, and why the leak keeps happening.
Education
A government audit released in May 2026 counted more than one lakh Indian schools running on a single teacher, and about 99,000 without a girls' toilet. Here is what those numbers mean for the children inside them, and what would actually fix it.
Education
ASER 2024 found that only 43 percent of Class 5 students in government schools can read a Class 2-level text. India has over 1.07 million vacant teaching posts in government schools. Kerala and Himachal Pradesh show what committed public investment can achieve. The Delhi AAP school model made real gains and real compromises. A Finland-level public education rebuild would cost roughly Rs 3.5 lakh crore per year. The political class whose children study abroad is the same class that controls the budget.
Education
Nearly 50 million Indian students drop out before reaching Class 10. This in-depth analysis examines the gender gap, rural-urban divide, poverty as the root driver, state-wise data, NEP 2020 solutions, bridge schools, and the concrete policy agenda India needs to reverse this crisis.
Child Welfare
Thousands of children in Jharkhand and Bihar's mica belt crawl into dangerous, unlit mine tunnels every day so the global cosmetics industry can put shimmer in your eyeshadow. This is the story of child labor hidden inside your makeup supply chain, and what can be done about it.
Education
India has over 600 million people under 25, and many are building student-led NGOs, from the Robin Hood Army to campus drives, to tackle local problems.
Child Welfare
India is home to one-third of the world's stunted children. With 35.5% of children under 5 stunted, 19.3% wasted, and anaemia rising to 67.1%, child malnutrition remains a national emergency. Explore the NFHS-5 data, state-wise disparities, the caste intersection, government interventions like ICDS and POSHAN Abhiyaan, and what India must do to break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.
Solutions
Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, has trained over 1,500 rural grandmothers as solar engineers across 93+ countries, proving that communities, not corporations, hold the key to ending energy poverty in India and beyond.
Solutions
From Pratham's Teaching at the Right Level methodology to eVidyaloka's digital classrooms in remote villages, these five NGOs are closing India's rural education gap through innovation, evidence-based programmes, and deep community partnerships.
Child Welfare
India is home to over 10 million child labourers according to Census 2011, though the actual number is likely far higher. This article examines the laws, root causes, hidden forms, COVID-era setbacks, and the interventions that are actually making a difference in ending child labour.
Gender Equality
In rural India, 23 million girls drop out of school every year because of menstruation. With only 50 per cent of rural women using hygienic menstrual products and deeply entrenched taboos enforcing silence, period poverty remains one of India's most urgent, and least discussed, crises.
Education
The Right to Education Act made free schooling a fundamental right for every child aged 6-14 in India. But what does it actually promise, and how well has it delivered? Here's a simple guide.
Education
India has one of the largest education systems in the world, yet millions of children can't read, can't count, and can't stay in school. Here are 10 numbers that reveal the true scale of the crisis.
