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                        Education of India Lack of ample schools: Local transportation is a problem in rural India, and this assumes greater significance when it comes to education. At many places, good schools are outside the villages, and this can deter parents from sending their kids to such schools. Lack of affordable schools: As compared to urban areas, government schools are not as spread out in rural areas, and this can discourage parents to spend on their kids’ education. Poor infrastructure: Most rural schools lack good infrastructure, including well-trained teachers. This leads to poor quality of education being imparted. Various studies have demonstrated a wide gap between rural and urban education. In urban areas, the number of schools per person is higher, as is the quality of education delivery—due to relative lack of infrastructure, including reliable electricity. Also, it has been seen that schools in rural Indi...

                        HEALTH SERVICES Physical reach is one of the basic determinants of access, defined as “ the ability to enter a healthcare facility within 5 km from the place of residence or work”[ 13 ] Using this definition, a study in India in 2012 found that in rural areas, only 37% of people were able to access IP facilities within a 5 km distance, and 68% were able to access out-patient facilities[ 14 ] Krishna and Ananthapur, in their 2012 paper, postulate that in general, the more rustic (rural) one's existence – the further one lives from towns – the greater are the odds of disease, malnourishment, weakness, and premature death.[ 15 ] Even if a healthcare facility is physically accessible, what is the quality of care that it offers? Is that care continuously available? While the National (Rural) Health Mission has done much to improve the infrastructure in the Indian Government healthcare system, a 2012 study of ...

  105 women go missing everyday in Maharashtra, most land up in forced prostitution: NCRB data As many as 105 women go missing every day and 17 get trafficked every week in  Maharashtra , according to  National Crime Records Bureau  ( NCRB ) 2019. Nationally, the state records the highest  human trafficking  and missing women cases, followed by Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Of the 989 victims of trafficking, 88% were women and 6% were children. People were trafficked for various reasons such as bonded labour, organ trafficking, drug peddling, sexual exploitation, forced marriages etc. In case of Maharashtra, the reason for 95.6% of the trafficking was sexual exploitation through forced prostitution, data showed. Moreover, instances of women going missing in 2019 versus 2018 has increased by 13%. The state was not even in the list of top 10 states recording the highest number of missing children in 2018, but is now in the fourth rank nationally for re...