-The New indian Express The White Army -- a collective of 30 masons, painters, auto drivers, students, and an electrician of Arayi village -- has been helping build houses for the poor for the past eight years. KASARAGOD: Vidya Shankar's Tamil Nadu-based husband, a daily wage labourer, died four years ago in Salem. That was the second time she was orphaned. The first was when she was a teenager. The second time,...
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Centre announces Rs 100 per child under mid-day meal, gets flak from health and nutrition experts -Shivani Gupta
-GaonConnection.com The central government has recently announced Rs 100 per child under the mid-day meal scheme to meet the nutritional needs of children in the pandemic. But, activists say this amount is insufficient and there is a need to resume cooked meal services universally with better quality. The central government has announced Rs 1,200 crore [Rs 12,000 million] to be given to 118 million children across the country who are enrolled under...
More »CBSE, CISCE scrap Class XII exams after review by PM -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Government also added that the results will be made as per a well-defined objective criteria in a time-bound manner. The Class 12 examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have been cancelled, following a review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday evening. “In view of the uncertain conditions due to COVID and the feedback obtained from various stakeholders, it was decided that Class XII Board Exams...
More »Decoding inequality in a digital world -Reetika Khera
-The Hindu Technological changes in education and health are worsening inequities Virginia Eubanks’ widely acclaimed book, Automating Inequality, alerted us to the ways that automated decision-making tools exacerbated inequalities, especially by raising the barrier for people to receive services they are entitled to. The novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies in India, even for essential services such as health and education, where access to them might be poor. Economic...
More »How historical caste privilege became modern-day ‘merit’ -Dipayan Pal
-The Indian Express In a nation where access to education remains a fundamental issue and where an individual’s success largely depends on access to resources, shaped by socio-economic and caste advantages, 'merit' is just another form of discrimination. While a public health crisis grips the nation, the recent incident at IIT Kharagpur where a professor named Seema Singh at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences allegedly made casteist slurs during a...
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