Central Commissioner for Disabled Persons

The office of Central Commissioner for Disabled Persons {or Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities aka CCPD} was set up under Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. Mandate The mandate of CCPD is ..

National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC)

This commission was created under the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 in the aftermath of Mandal Case (1992) judgement. The Supreme in this case had directed the Central Government to set a permanent statutory body to look into ..

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is a statutory body set up in 2007 under Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005. Objective of this commission is to protect, promote and defend the child rights in India ..

Global Hunger Index 2015

The 2015 GHI was calculated for 117 developing countries and countries in transition, 80 of which with alarming or serious hunger levels. The focus of GHI 2015 was on armed conflict and its relation to hunger. The Index was adopted ..

2016 Global Nutrition Report

The 2016 Global Nutrition Report (GNR) was released recently providing an independent and annual review of the state of the world’s nutrition.  The vision of the GNR is “From Promise to Impact- Ending malnutrition by 2030. Background The recently announced ..

Poverty and State Of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) by FAO 2015

FAO had released the SOFA in 2015. It highlights the status of agriculture and food in the counties. Through the SOFA, FAO brings out a positive co-relation between social protection measures and eradication of poverty and hunger and agriculture. Background ..

Poverty and Socio-Economic and Caste Census

The 1st ever post independence Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) was conducted in 2011.  Government released the results of SECC-2011 in July 2015. SECC-2011 was first caste based census of Independent India. Earlier, caste based data was collected in 1931 ..

Poverty and Terrorism

Experts have noted recently that the failure to provide opportunities which leads to poverty coupled with misreading of religion has helped fuel terrorism worldwide.  Extreme poverty is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time and a fundamental contributing factor to ..