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The Migrant Worker and the Goddess -Tapati Guha-Thakurta

-Newsclick.in The plight of the migrant worker exploded as a repeating theme in Puja pandals across Kolkata at a time when the central government made its scandalous declaration in Parliament about its “lack of data” about the number of workers who had perished, evading all its responsibility and obligations. Much ink has been spilt over this past week on this sculptural tableau of goddess Durga and her Children as a migrant worker...

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Last child matters

-The Indian Express ASER report flags burden of digital inequality on Children, and opportunity for government schools. The digital pivot in India’s schooling system risks pushing it into deeper inequality, seven months after schools shut down across the country to tackle the pandemic. A majority of Children without access to internet has been thrown into distress — a handful to the point of self-harm, as several reports in this newspaper attest —...

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New urban poor in Mumbai -- No demand, self-employed hardest hit: Socha na tha ki haath phailana padega -Mayura Janwalkar and Sadaf Modak

-The Indian Express Baudh’s is a story playing out across the city as the Covid lockdown winds down but small businesses don’t know where the keys to demand are. Mumbai: Their ghar is gone because the rent cannot be paid so the Baudh family has moved to their karkhana whose owner has given them some time to pay. Seated on its floor in a chawl near Juhu Gally, Anant (8), Arpit (6) and...

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Digital divide is stark, online education still far from reality: ASER -Prashant K Nanda

-Livemint.com * States like Maharashtra, Gujarat, MP, and Tripura, who have reported more than 30 percentage points in the proportion of Children whose families own a smartphone include * There is limited evidence on the extent to which this content is reaching Children and the impact it is having on their learning NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the huge push, only one third of India’s school Children are pursuing online education and a smaller cohort...

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Nearly 20% of rural school Children had no textbooks due to COVID-19 impact, finds ASER survey

-The Hindu In the week of the survey in September, about one in three rural Children had done no learning activity at all. About 20% of rural Children have no textbooks at home, according to the Annual State of Education Report (ASER) survey conducted in September, the sixth month of school closures due to COVID-19 across the country. In Andhra Pradesh, less than 35% of Children had textbooks, and only 60% had...

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