Statement 1 is incorrect. It empowers a district magistrate, a sub-divisional magistrate or any other executive magistrate specially empowered by the state government in this behalf to issue orders to prevent and address urgent cases of apprehended danger or nuisance.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Orders may be directed against a particular individual, or to persons residing in a particular place or area, or to the public generally.

Statement 3 is correct. No order passed under Section 144 can remain in force for more than two months from the date of the order. The state government can extend this, but not more than six months.

NGO Pratham released the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2019). It is an annual survey that aims to provide reliable annual estimates of children's schooling status and basic learning levels for each state and rural district in India. It was first conducted in 2005.
Key ASER 2019 (Rural) findings
* Enrolment: Since 2007, the enrolment of children for the age group 6 to 14 has been above 95%. 1% of children in the 15-16 age group are not in school.
* Learning Levels:
Five-year-old children in private schools fared better in learning tasks than those in govt. schools and Anganwadi
Only 16% of children in Class 1 can read the text at the prescribed level, while almost 40% cannot even recognize letters.
Only 41% of these children could recognize two-digit numbers
* State-wise Disparity: In Uttar Pradesh, over 60% of Class 3 children cannot recognize letters or read words whereas in Himachal Pradesh over 70% of children are either at grade-level or only close behind.
* Choice of School: Parents are more likely to opt for a private school when selecting a school for boys while government schools are the primary choice of parents when it comes to girls' education.
Key Recommendations:
* Strengthening and expansion of the existing network of Anganwadi Centres
* Age of students play an important role in the development of language, numeracy, social and emotional learning
* Enrolling students in primary grades at right age important for the overall development
* Age group between 4 to 8 years seen as continuous progressive stages, so curriculum development should be done in accordance with it. "

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization which regulates international trade. The WTO is attempting to complete negotiations on the Doha Development Round, which was launched in 2001 with an explicit focus on developing countries. As of June 2012, the future of the Doha Round remained uncertain: the work programme lists 21 subjects in which the original deadline of 1 January 2005 was missed, and the round is still incomplete. The conflict between free trade on industrial goods and services but retention of protectionism on farm subsidies to domestic agricultural sector (requested by developed countries) and the substantiation of fair trade on agricultural products (requested by developing countries) remain the major obstacles. This impasse has made it impossible to launch new WTO negotiations beyond the Doha Development Round. As a result, there have been an increasing number of bilateral free trade agreements between governments. As of July 2012, there were various negotiation groups in the WTO system for the current agricultural trade negotiation which is in the condition of stalemate.

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