People's Archive of Rural India - Library

People's Archive of Rural India - Library

The CounterMedia Trust

The PARI Library brings reports and information on rural India to a single location for students, researchers and other readers. It includes official as well as independent reports, out-of-print books, rare documents and reviewed research articles.


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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 May 1980 English

The government of India’s Planning Commission appointed the Working Group on Population Policy on October 20, 1978, with Dr. V.A. Pai Panandiker (then, director at the Centre for Policy Research, …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 December 1979 English

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the 4,462-word Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women on December 18, 1979. It came into force on September 3, …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 11 June 1979 English

This Act aims to regulate the employment of ‘inter-state migrant workmen’ and provide for their conditions of service.An ‘inter-state migrant workman’ is defined as any person who is recruited by …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 September 1978 English

The Declaration of Alma-Ata was adopted on September 12, 1978, at the International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata, USSR (now Almaty in Kazakhstan). The conference was organised by …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 8 March 1976 English

This Act, passed on March 8, 1976, aims to provide for the payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers, and to prevent discrimination against women in employment. ‘Remuneration’ …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 February 1976 English

The Parliament enacted The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, to end the practice of bonded labour across the country and free people from various kinds of bonded labour. The …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 1975

On February 8, 1974, the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals, government of India, set up the Committee on Drugs and Pharmaceutical Industry, under the chairmanship of Jaisukhlal Hathi (a former …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1975 English

The government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Planning appointed the Group on Medical Education and Support Manpower on November 1, 1974, under the chairmanship of Dr. J. B. …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 August 1974 English

The government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare set up the Consultative Committee of Experts to Determine Alternative Strategies under National Malaria Eradication Programme in July 1974. Dr. …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 23 March 1974 English

This Act – which Parliament passed on March 23, 1974 – provides for preventing and controlling water pollution and establishing Boards for the same, as well as maintaining and restoring …