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Schooling trap -Yamini Aiyar

-The Indian Express The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released last week forced India's policymakers, yet again, to confront the unfortunate realities of our primary education system. In its 10-year history, ASER has challenged the fundamental assumption of elementary education policy: that the expansion of the schooling system would ensure that children learn. Indeed, in the last decade, while the Centre was able to expand the system through the provision...

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Next phase of Jan-Dhan to offer a range of insurance, pension services

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday outlined the next phase of the Jan-Dhan Yojana to include credit, insurance and pension as he complimented bankers for near 100% coverage of households under the massive financial inclusion drive. The Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana is a key policy plank of the Modi Administration's vow to eradicate what it calls "financial untouchability". Each bank account comes with an accident insurance...

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A simple device to curb female foeticide -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

-The Hindu JIND (HARYANA): A simple set top box is helping to prevent sex determination and female foeticide. Taking its cue from Jhajjar, which had the worst sex ratio among the districts of Haryana before staging a remarkable recovery in the past three years, the Jind Administration has made it mandatory for all ultrasound labs to install active tracking devices with their machines so as to make available the details of the...

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Private sector, ‘care economy’ will be key engines of job creation for next 5 years –UN report

-The United Nations Private sector services, such as business and administrative services, and real estate, as well as related industries, will employ more than a third of the global workforce over the next five years, according to new data released by the United Nations labour agency. "Service sector employment will remain the most dynamic with respect to job creation in the next five years," said Raymond Torres, a head researcher of...

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Let’s remake the classroom -Rukmini Banerji and Esther Duflo

-The Indian Express The 10th edition of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) by Pratham, released last week, shows that over the last decade, basic learning levels for children in elementary school in India have remained low. Only about half of Class V children in rural India can read a simple Class II level text, and a similar proportion can do a two-digit subtraction problem with borrowing. While there are...

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