School vouchers should be an integral part of the Centre’s plans to implement the Right to Education (RTE). For the state to spend gargantuan amounts on school education is fine, but to insist that the delivery too would be by the state is meaningless. Surveys have shown that government teachers are absent from their schools and children cannot do simple arithmetic or write small paragraphs after years of schooling. Reforms...
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Bangalore school’s circular raises controversy
Trigerring a fresh controversy over some provisions of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, a Bangalore school’s circular to parents virtually warns them of what could be in store once the act comes into force. Bethany High School, in a circular dated July 26, a copy of which is with TOI, said: "Under this Act, all private unaided schools will have to accommodate 25% of their strength of children around...
More »NREGA workers set to get better tools by Anindo Dey
Ergonomics is no longer the privilege of those working in plush offices. If things fall in place, Rajasthan may be the first state to take it to the absolute grassroots -- at the NREGA worksite. In a pathbreaking move, the MIT Institute of Design in Pune, under the National Knowledge Commission, has taken the plunge for fine-tuning traditional tools used for digging and moving earth specially in NREGA so as...
More »Inflation: A nation forced to go on distress diet by Rukmini Shrinivasan
After nearly 15 straight months of double-digit food inflation, the government announced on Thursday that food inflation had dipped to 9.67% for the week that ended on July 17. That's small consolation for most Indians, particularly the poor, who have seen a relentless assault on their food budgets that has resulted in essential items being dropped from the menu, giving rise to a whole new enforced "austerity diet". Since no...
More »Ministry approves higher allocation for RTE Act by Aarti Dhar
The Centre has revised the financial allocation under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act over the next five years. As against the Rs.1,71,000 crore suggested earlier, the Finance Ministry has now approved an allocation for Rs.2,31,000 crore. The Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) under the Finance Ministry has also agreed to increase the Centre's share effectively to 68 per cent and reduce the State share to 32 per...
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