-Down to Earth People of West Bengal's Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis Subedan Bibi's mud hut is a few metres from the banks of the Bakchara river, a distributary of the Hugli in Sunderbans region of South 24 Parganas. When the river is in spate she and most others of Goyadham village move to the main market in the nearby block. "Floods and storms destroy...
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Only 4% EWS parents aware of reservation under RTE Act: Study -Shikha Sharma
-The Indian Express The report was released at a Delhi state-wide conference on the Right to Education Act by Indus Action - an NGO. New Delhi: Only four per cent of parents from economically weaker sections (EWS) are aware about the availability of 25 per cent seats under EWS category in the capital's private schools, under the RTE Act, a study has shown. The study also found that only half of these four...
More »Junk games and schoolchildren-Sunita Narain
-The Business Standard There is nothing called junk food. The problem with obesity lies with children who do not exercise enough. What is needed is for them to run and jump, and to do this they need to consume high-calorie food. So, food high in salt, sugar and fat is good for them." This is what was argued vehemently and rudely by representatives of the food industry in the committee set...
More »Nursing many wounds -Jinoy Jose P
-The Hindu Business Line Underpaid and overworked, India's nurses are in need of better treatment from the society they care for Florence Nightingale called nursing the finest of fine arts. But Molly Sibbichan would have disagreed. On March 16, Sunday, the 42-year-old nurse, employed with the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, hanged herself inside her south Delhi home. Molly's suicide note said work pressure and stress pushed her to kill...
More »SC/ST kids suffer bias in classroom: Rights group -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: "The teacher tells us to sit on the other side," said "Pankaj," an eight-year-old tribal boy from Uttar Pradesh, "If we sit with others, she scolds us and asks us to sit separately. The teacher doesn't sit with us because she says we are dirty." "The teacher didn't let us go to the toilet. One day, I asked her for permission to go to the...
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