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document.write("<div align='justify'>‘India State of Forest Report 2009’, a report by   Dehra Dun-based Forest Survey of India, shows that a total of 78.37 million hectares of land -- or 23.84% of the country’s geographical area -- was under forest area in 2007. This is an increase of 0.18 million hectares, 0.23%, over 2005. <br />");
document.write("State Of Karnataka is chosen  best state in RTI implementation, West Bengal is worst .Karnataka tops the country in implementing the Right to Information (RTI) Act, scoring 55% in Overall Public Satisfaction (OPS), according to draft data compiled by the Magsaysay awardee Arvind Kejriwal-led NGO Parivartan as part of an initiative to promote people’s right to access information from government organisations. West Bengal is at the bottom of the heap, scoring just 6% in OPS.");
document.write("The national average of the possibility of getting information through an appeal with RTI information commissions is still a low 27%. <br />");
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document.write("The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $9.7 million grant for farmers in India as part of a $120 million programme for agriculture uplift in endemically poor regions of the world . <br />");
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document.write("Bhavishya, a social initiative committee of students from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) gave career guidance to underprivileged students of a school in the state capital.The objective of the initiative — christened as ‘Disha’ — was to identify students, who are bright in studies but have little opportunity and exposure to the outside world.The students also counselled them about various career paths available for them and preparing for the same <br />");
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document.write("India along with five other developing countries has joined a group of five rich nations to work on a $350-million project to fight climate change through forest management.Forest currently cover 21 percent of geographical area of india.");
document.write("The six developing nations which also include Brazil, Congo, Morocco, Nepal and Romania have joined the group of five contributing countries- the US, Australia, Britain, Denmark and Norway - under the governing body of the Forest Investment Programme (FIP).");
document.write("It Would should lead to replicable models resulting in effective forest management, improved forest governance and information systems, restoration and sustainable management of degraded forests, forest protection measures, and other investments to reduce the pressure on forests, both inside and outside the forest sector <br />");
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document.write("In India, only 20% or 60 million people in urban area lacks a cell phone. On the other hand 87% i.e. 600 million people in rural areas lack cell phones.");
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document.write("ndia ranks in the bottom half, among 134 countries, in terms of gender equality in the latest ranking that assesses the distribution of resources and opportunities among males and females around the world <br />");
document.write("Slipping one place from last year, India has cornered the 114th position in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) ‘The Global Gender Gap Index 2009’ ranking. India ranked 114th in 2007 too; it cornered 98th place in 2006.");
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document.write("Two year ago,India was among 47 African and Asian countries identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO)  as “worst affected” by measles, accounting for 98% of global deaths from the infection.  India has slipped behind all of Africa and Asia in combating measles, delaying action to bolster immunisation against the infection that kills an estimated 160,000 children in the country every year.Angola, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, Vietnam, Yemen and Pakistan has taken action against measles but India remains the only country in the world that has not systematically introduced the second dose of the measles vaccine.<br /><br />Recent Unicef report  says 80% of the developing world’s stunted children live in 24 countries. The high number in India is due to the large population; the country ranks 12th on the list of countries led by Afghanistan with a high prevalence of stunted children.<br /><br />As per latest report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),India is one of the ten countries in the world with the largest number of endangered species -- a dubious distinction conferred on it a year before the world observes International Year of Biodiversity.There  are around 96 mammals, 67 birds, 25 reptiles, 64 varieties of fish, 213 invertebrates and 217 species of plants under serious threat in india.Shockingly,24 of the 28 new endangered species on the latest list are varieties of fish. This shows the poor condition of the country’s polluted waterbodies. </div></marquee>");