-ThePrint.in Study titled 'India Needs To Learn — A Case for Keeping Schools Open' conducted by Boston Consulting Group and Teach For India, with recommendations from over 35 organisations. New Delhi: Over 90 per cent of teachers in India have faced serious challenges with assessing student learning and over 80 per cent teachers expressed impossibility of maintaining an emotional connect with children during online classes, a study has found. The study, titled “India...
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Collective conscience -Shiv Visvanathan
-The Telegraph A Truth Commission for the Northeast This essay is a letter to my fellow Indians. It’s a prayer, a plea, a proposal for a project, a moral experiment. It was triggered by the emptiness of Independence Day, when a majoritarian, mediocre India confronted the vacuity of its political self. These feelings increased upon reading reports on December 4 of the massacre of several civilians in Nagaland. They were waiting at...
More »The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more
Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system of anti-tank guided missiles in Jhansi. The foundation was laid for the first project in the Jhansi node (related to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor) on November 18, 2021. The two...
More »By repealing farm laws, Modi govt admits that its law-making process trampled upon the Constitution and legislative intent -SN Sahu
-TheLeaflet.in The announcement of the imminent repeal of the three controversial farm laws signals a victory for not just the year-long farmers’ mass movement and civil society, but also represents a triumph of Constitutional values, writes S.N. SAHU. MAHATMA Gandhi had very presciently told the peasant leader N.G. Ranga on October 29, 1944, “If the legislature proves itself to be incapable of safeguarding kisans’ interests they will of course always have the...
More »Right to Food Campaign writes to the Food Minister for further extension of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana & universalisation of PDS
-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 8th November, 2021 In a recent letter to Shri. Piyush Goyal, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat -- a civil society organisation working on food and nutrition security in the country -- has recommended for further extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) till May 2022. Against the backdrop of uncertainty over livelihoods...
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