-The Hindu Step paves way for providing quality and compulsory education to all children of school-going age The Tamil Nadu Elementary School Teachers' Federation (TNESTF) has thanked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for notifying enforcement of the Right to Education Act, thereby paving way for providing quality and compulsory education for all children of school-going age. Federation General Secretary N. Rengarajan and president K.Kamaraj expressed happiness over the State being in the forefront to implement...
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NCPCR’s intervention makes RTE a reality for 378 kids in Malda
Carrying forward from the opening of a school in Hamidpur Char & enrolling 378 children on Thursday, for whom education had been a distant dream come true, it was the day for yet another batch of 136 children enrolled in to a newly setup school in the age group of 6-8 yrs of Narayanpur Char in Manichak Block of Malda District, also visited by the 5 member Team of NCPCR...
More »Why India needs democracy by Markandey Katju
What is our national aim? To my mind, our national aim must be to make India a highly prosperous country for its citizens, and for that it is necessary to have a high degree of industrialization. Even setting up and running a single primary school requires a lot of money, e.g. for buying land, erecting the school building and providing for the recurrent expenditure for salaries of teachers, staff, etc. We...
More »HC scraps teachers’ selection by Chandrajit Mukherjee
-The Telegraph Jharkhand High Court today scrapped the appointment of 8,042 government primary schoolteachers, terming the eligibility test conducted by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) in July to screen candidates arbitrary and illegal. The order of the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Tatia and Justice P.P. Bhatt means schools will have to wait for teachers longer, as 18,208 posts of teachers (primary and Urdu) have been lying vacant since 2008. A petition was...
More »Trooper teacher in Saranda class by Kumud Jenamani
Blackboard 2002: A for attack; B for bomb; C for cops… Blackboard 2012: A for apple; B for ball; C for cat… Jamshedpur, Nov. 20: More than 500 students in some 15 primary and middle schools in forest villages of a reclaimed Saranda in West Singhbhum are looking forward to a paradigm shift in their ABCs of academic life, courtesy the CRPF. The central paramilitary force has taken up the daunting task of...
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