The Right to Education Act (RTE) mandates the setting up of School Management Committees (SMC) by all private unaided Schools for managing School affairs, including fixing fees, in six months’ time but so far no School has done anything about it. RTE implementation would complete the stipulated six-month period on September 1 but many Schools are not even aware of the concept under which 75 per cent of the members of...
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We'll wait and talk, say ICSE Schools
The Management Association of ICSE Schools on Thursday decided to wait and discuss the Right To Education Act Bill with the state government, before approaching court on its implementation. After a meeting with all ICSE Schools on Thursday, Mohan Manghnani, president, Association of ICSE Schools in Karnataka, told TOI that they had decided to approach the Supreme Court only as the last resort. "The association will wait for the state...
More »School kids cut CM to size, Mayavati shrinks to Mavati by Tapas Chakraborty
Mayavati had better do something quick about the state of Schools in Uttar Pradesh if she wants children to spell her name right. An NGO assessing the District Primary Education Programme and Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, a national programme for universalisation of elementary education, asked 16 students of Classes III and IV of a government School in Joar village near Lucknow to write the name of their chief minister in Hindi. Mavit and...
More »Supreme Court slams Haryana over Mirchpur by J Venkatesan
Taking a serious view of the Haryana Government's failure to arrest the perpetrators of atrocities against the Dalits of Mirchpur village, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the State to arrest by this coming Monday all those who are wanted in the case by the police. A Bench of Justice G. S. Singhvi and Justice A. K. Ganguly is hearing a writ petition filed by Jaswant Singh and others seeking relief...
More »Court to decide on 100 p.c. quota for STs in tribal areas
The Supreme Court on Thursday referred to a Constitution Bench for hearing an important question of law as to whether 100 per cent reservation in posts for teachers could be made in favour of Scheduled Tribes in Schools in scheduled areas. A Bench, comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma, referred the appeal to Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia for posting it before a Constitution Bench. The special leave petition...
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