-The Times of India With the Supreme Court bringing all recognized schools under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the government will have to boost spending on its flagship programme to meet the estimated Rs 2.3 lakh crore needed to fund the initiative over 2010-2014. RTE has been plagued with fund shortfalls with budgetary provision in the last two years being only half of what was estimated. The HRD ministry received Rs...
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MCD councilors get class in RTE-Neha Pushkarna
Sitting and aspiring MCD councillors of Trilokpuri area got a lesson in RTEon Wednesday. At a public meeting organized by JOSH, locals flocked to meet them with lots of suggestions and many complaints about the lack of educational facilities in their east Delhi colony. All that the candidates could muster as a response was a slew of promises most of which were shrouded in ignorance about the provisions of the...
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-Myeducationtimes.com The 12th Five-Year Plan will be focusing on the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Vatsala Shrangi reports The 12th Five-Year Plan, which has been delayed and likely to be released by April, is going to focus on the Right to Education (RTE) Act as its central theme. Apart from RTE, the other key areas will include higher education and the setting up of central universities. "The 12th Five-Year Plan is still in...
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-The Times of India The 12th Five-Year Plan, which has been delayed and likely to be released in April, is going to focus on the Right to Education (RTE) Act this time. Apart from RTE, the other key areas will include higher education and the setting up of central universities. "The Five-Year Plan is still in its drafting stage. The two sectors - education and health - will be the focus this...
More »Long on Aspiration, Short on Detail by Sujatha Rao
The recommendations of the Planning Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Access to Universal Healthcare are significant because they make explicit the need to contextualise health within the rights. However, the problem with the report is that it does not ask why many of the same recommendations that were made by previous committees have not been implemented. The HLEG neither recognises the problems, constraints and compulsions at the national, state...
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