-The Indian Express Pune: Around 95.5 per cent schools in Pune district don't comply with the 10 infrastructural parameters under Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009. This was revealed in the District Information System for Education (DISE) report for 2012-13 prepared by the education department. Of the 6,849 schools in Pune district, only 308 schools fulfil all RTE parameters. Even worse is that barely 289 schools comply with less that five norms....
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Centre tweaks norms to fund aided schools-Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has modified the norms of an education scheme to allow partial funding of state government-aided secondary schools in a move that could benefit Bengal the most. Funds under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) have so far been limited solely to government-run institutions. The four-year-old scheme provides grants to set up schools, improve facilities in existing ones and recruit teachers. Most secondary schools in Bengal are aided institutions,...
More »Deficient programme -Jyotsna Singh
-Down to Earth Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food? Eleven-year-old Indumati Katla, who lives in Wazirpur, Delhi, went to school on July 17. There, her class teacher asked her to gulp down a maroon tablet. Two hours later, she was in hospital recuperating from severe nausea, giddiness and fatigue. She was among the 200 government school students in Delhi who fell ill that day after...
More »Bengal oil, taste notice -Mita Mukherjee
-The Telegraph Kolkata: The Bengal government is set to issue fresh guidelines asking primary school heads to taste the food before each midday meal and making ISI-certified oil a must for cooking. In the current system followed in most schools, the cook and a teacher are supposed to taste and check the food before it is served to students. The government wants to strengthen the quality check in the wake of the midday...
More »Sonia upset at midday meal lapses
-The Telegraph Sonia Gandhi has questioned the laxity in monitoring midday-meal quality in the wake of the deaths of over 20 children in a Bihar school. The UPA chairperson called Union human resource development (HRD) minister M.M. Pallam Raju yesterday and expressed strong displeasure over the monitoring of the programme on which the Centre spends around Rs 10,000 crore a year, a source said. She said she was saddened by the death of...
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