-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The government has spent crores on promoting Hindi in the country and abroad in recent years. A recent RTI query sent to the department of language (DOL) has revealed that Rs 348.90 crore was allocated between 2009 and 2012 to develop and promote the language. The DOL's reply to the RTI query justifies the largesse, saying that the money has been well spent. Anticipating the question why...
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Andre Beteille walks away from edu panel as Raju begins recast -Anubhuti Vishnoi
-The Indian Express Andre Beteille, one of India’s most celebrated sociologists, has dissociated himself from the proposed Second Education Commission which he was to head. HRD Minister Pallam Raju’s attempt at recasting the commission, with new terms of reference and possibly some new members, is said to have prompted Professor Beteille’s exit, sources said. The commission, proposed by Raju’s predecessor Kapil Sibal to formulate a new education policy in line with the massive changes in...
More »Panel moots percentile pill -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph An expert panel has suggested three ways of comparing students’ marks across 26 Class XII boards for admission to about 40 central institutions, amid indications that a percentile-based matching may be approved. One of the other options is based on the calculation of a board’s mean score, and the third on the determination of the mean as well as the standard deviation (a statistical concept), sources told this newspaper. They added...
More »Centre raps private firms for quota failure -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India Amid talk of stimulating growth with sops to industry, the Centre has chided the private sector for performing abysmally on making the workforce inclusive by boosting dalit presence in its ranks. The industry in 2006 promised voluntary affirmative action to persuade the UPA-1 government to drop plans to enforce reservation in private sector through a legislation. Reviewing the updated results of affirmative action provided by the industry, Union social...
More »CBSE Bill makes States jittery over their diminished role-Bageshree S
-The Hindu A proposed legislation to make the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) a statutory body, the draft of which is in circulation among the States for comments, has made Education Department officials of States apprehensive. They fear that it will result in hundreds of elite schools affiliated to the Board going completely beyond their monitoring mechanism. While the rules of the Right to Education (RTE) Act give an important role...
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