In government schools in the villages, teachers rarely turn up. They collect their monthly salaries and pay a part of it to Basic Shiksha Adhikari for marking false attendance. Medicines are diverted to the black market before they reach government hospitals. Poor people are turned away when they go to hospitals. There is endless corruption in the work done by various panchayats. Rations meant for people living in extreme poverty...

-IANS   Bihar's literacy rate may be the lowest in the country at 63.8 percent, but it could achieve total literacy in about two decades like the rest of India, predicts a new report. During the past decade, the literacy rate in Bihar has increased by 17 percent, much faster compared to nine percent for the entire country, the report points out. "If Bihar is able to maintain its present momentum in educational...

The state government on Tuesday sent teachers to win over parents to stop their children from joining the anti-Posco agitation even as security forces reoccupied schools in the proposed project area after returning from Rath Yatra duty. The official move to segregate children from the agitators began a day after three members of the National Commission for Protection of Child Right (NCPCR) visited the place and interacted with children to...

-The Deccan Herald   In the wake of implementation of the Right to Education Act, the earlier decision of the education department to open Residential Boarding Centres (RBC) for tribal children in their settlements has taken a back seat. The state government has been concentrating more on ‘Shalegagi Naavu-Neevu’ under the Right to Education Act. The alumni, elected representatives and education activists are all geared up to visit government schools to inspect...

Teachers are running the school with the help of sponsors At a time when government primary schools are being closed down in many districts in the State owing to lack of students, this one in Devalapur village, on the outskirts of Sirguppa town in Bellary district, has become a model of sorts. The school provides the best infrastructure for its students and has managed to attract children from the lower strata of...