-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Nine-year-old Priyanka Kumari wants to escape her impoverished childhood but the school she studies in is most unusual – underneath a metro bridge in east Delhi’s Shakarpur area. The pillars serve as the boundary of the school and trains roar past on the bridge above, rattling her as she solves elementary mathematical problems. “The teaching here is good, I like coming to this school. Sir gives work to do...
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Growing illiteracy in rural India -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu Only 5.4 per cent has crossed higher secondary school stage The Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) released on Friday has found that 36 per cent of the 884 million people in rural India are illiterate. This is higher than the 32 per cent recorded by the Census of India 2011. Of the 64 per cent literate rural Indians, a more than a fifth have not even completed primary school....
More »55% private unaided schools screen EWS applicants, 10% take admission fees from them : DCPCR Study -Shreya Roy Chowdhury
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: There are more violations of the law with with regard to EWS/DG (economically weaker section/disadvantaged group) admissions in private schools. A new study by Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) and Save the Children has found that 52% of MCD-unaided and 55% of DoE-unaided schools are "following screening procedure in the admission of EWS/DG". Screening of candidates --- essentially selecting candidates on the basis...
More »CAG pulls up Delhi govt for not obtaining fund proof, discrepancies
-PTI New Delhi: Auditor CAG has pointed out discrepancies in the implementation of social welfare schemes including mid-day meal (MDM) and pulled up the Delhi government for its failure to obtain fund utilisation certificates from various institutions. The auditor also criticised the performance of the Delhi tourism and transport development corporation, saying that it has failed to formulate a perspective plan for tourism promotion in the city despite 39 years of its...
More »Midday meals fail quality check, many kids left out
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Two decades after launch, implementation of the midday meal scheme in Delhi seems to suffer from teething problems. CAG says the scheme is still not reaching all the children it's meant to cover, the meals do not meet the minimum quality requirements, the monitoring system is weak and service providers remain empanelled despite defaulting. Worryingly, some of the lacunae had been pointed out even in 2006,...
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