On September 18, Bimola Rai’s world was reduced to rubble. A student of Class III in Bop village in Chungthang block of North District in Sikkim, a Himalayan border state, she was left traumatized when a devastating earthquake of 6.9 magnitude on the Richter scale, flattened her home and school building, located at an altitude of 5,500 feet. Today, Bimola joins 26 other children of her village to walk the four...
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Govt set to ban all forms of child labour by Mahendra Kumar Singh
The government is considering to make changes in existing laws to abolish all forms of child labour under 18 years. A government panel has recommended amendment to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act that makes distinction between hazardous and non-hazardous categories of work for children under 14 years. Child rights activists has been demanding for a revision in the definition of child labour to bring uniformity in all laws, and recognize all...
More »Communal curriculum by Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
The Sangh Parivar is systematically following its “Indianisation reforms” in schools run by its affiliates. THE attempts of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)-led Sangh Parivar at “saffronising” education attracted widespread attention between 1998 and 2004 when the Hindutva combine's political arm, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), held the reins of power at the Centre. During that period, especially between 1998 and 2002, the BJP's Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi...
More »Parents complain during RTE admissions in city schools
-The Times of India Admissions of the disadvantaged or BPL (Below Poverty Line) category children under Right to Education (RTE) Act at various schools across the city was not without debate and dissatisfaction on Tuesday. At two of the schools, the education department authorities had to intervene for smooth implementation of the draw of lots of the applicants for kindergarten and class one. At St. Xavier's Senior Secondary Co-ed School, BHEL, parents raised...
More »'Introducing religion in school syllabus is UNTHINKABLE' by Vicky Nanjappa
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka appears to be readying itself for a big fight, and this time it is over the Bhagavad Gita. A statement by Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, in which he said that the government was considering introducing the Gita in primary and secondary standards in school has drawn appreciation as well as flak in the state. Vicky Nanjappa reports. The issue had come up...
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