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The work presents an account of an effort at education reform in Ladakh called Operation New Hope. It discusses how a civil society group, Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh, made efforts in partnership with local self-governance processes. It discusses aspects of the educational reforms experiment in-depth: the participating stakeholders, village communities and their institutions, its impact on the schools, staff and the learning ...
The book traces the roots of elder law in India from the British period. It also takes into account the philosophical roots of elder law in terms of what has been articulated in the constitution of India the various international declarations including the latest second world assembly on ageing. The Madrid Conference and the International Plan of action on ageing 2002 provides a comprehensive framework for the society of all ages advocated by the United Nations. ...
Shelter Security for the Elderly is an edited volume of papers from Israel, Romania and India. Scholars from the respective countries have analyzed the emergence of old age homes and the attempts at introducing standards of care for the residents. It is obvious that India is far behind the two countries in terms of standards of care despite some very meaningful attempts by the Private Real Estate industry specializing in individual and group housing products for ...
Health Care System in India has laid too much emphasis on hospitals and hospitalization. In the process, two important constituents of the system Home Health Service and Palliative Care have remained Peripheral. Almost neglected. There have been Mobile Medical Units, Community Camps, and door to door immunization campaigns. The system is however beginning to rapidly support privatization of health care initiatives under the guise of bringing about improvements in ...