[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=woman-child-development] [widget id="text-21"] According to Census 2001 and 2011, literacy rates in Bihar remains amongst the lowest in the country, wherein the Musahar community has shown the lowest literacy level at 3.9% for female literacy. The Musahar community is a highly discriminated and excluded community within Dalits. This has forced them to live away from the main village centres, away from the general

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=woman-child-development] [widget id="text-21"]   India has the largest number of working children under 14 years in the world. Estimates range from 12.6 to 60 million. 70-80% of children are employed in agricultural activities such as wage labourers or cultivators, others in domestic work in household industries, factories, small trade activities and in the service sector. Many of them are trafficked into forced

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=woman-child-development] [widget id="text-21"]   TIMELINE: April 2015-March 2018 The programme aimed at empowering 5500 families hailing from underprivileged backgrounds from twenty villages of Faridabad district in Haryana, focusing women and children through needs based trainings and programmes. The programme focusses on economic growth of the community; educational and skill development, health and hygiene