Decibel levels have increased in July by 15.8 percent during the day time. Noise levels recorded at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) in NIMHANS campus, a silent zone, have increased by 15.8 percent during the daytime for July 2022 from June and are no longer within permissible limits, data from Karnataka State […]
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Few streetlights are installed, and that too only in front of houses, leaving the connecting roads of Devagere in darkness. Fewer streetlights are causing inconvenience and raising safety concerns for the residents of Devagere. As the lights are installed only in front of the houses, the roads connecting Devagere to Nallakamba circle and Thagachaguppe are […]
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Karnataka has reported a 18.74 percent increase in the number of POCSO cases till July 2022 compared to the first seven months of 2021. Karnataka is witnessing an increase in the number of cases registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act-2012 for a second consecutive year. Data available on the Karnataka […]
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Lack of parental assistance hampers children’s interest in education, says expert Dropout rates in schools have increased due to the lack of parental assistance in India. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), 2021 shows a drop in parental assistance at home from 74.9 percent in 2020 to 66.6 percent in 2021. This potentially contributes to […]
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The number rose from 1385 in 2019 to 4583 in 2021. Missing children cases have gone up by 31 per cent from 2019 to 2021 in Karnataka. There is a significant increase in the number of untraced children from 550 in 2019 to 897 in 2021. National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data suggests that 336 […]
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Type 2 diabetes is increasing in Indian children as they are more prone to unhealthy food habits. Child diabetes is a serious health issue in India. The number of diabetic children aged five to 17 years has increased in the past few years. From 2019 to 2021, the number of pediatric diabetic patients at Aster […]
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Although there is no law that determines what children can or cannot read, children’s authors in India find themselves playing it safe. Children’s authors in India sacrifice their freedom to express certain ideas so their books can be published, sold and accepted by parents, publishers and society. “My book ‘Behind the Lie’ is about domestic […]
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Seventeen percent of school-going children in India suffer from myopia. It is one of the emerging public health concerns. Bengaluru: Lack of outdoor activities has led to a rise in the number of myopia cases in children between five to 15 years of age in India. Myopia instances increased about 60 percent between 2019 and2021 […]
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Although most schools in Bengaluru have stopped admitting children in the Right to Education (RTE) quota, the children who remain in schools under this quota struggle. Bengaluru: RTE quota children in Bengaluru’s private schools struggle to learn, adapt and face several other problems. These have only worsened after school closures during the pandemic. Parents are […]
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Doctors say the vaccine might not necessarily be beneficial on an individual level but taken across a community it helps to reduce overall mortality. In Karnataka, there was a drastic fall in the number of children being vaccinated for the second and third doses of the Rotavirus vaccine (RVV). The diarrhoea causing virus is a […]
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