-The Hindu The social activist whose new book on the RTI is just out, worries about the doublespeak in politics today, where rhetoric and substance never match The past couple of months have been hectic for Aruna Roy. The social activist and Magsaysay Award winner has been travelling across the country to promote her book, The RTI Story: Power to the People, which came out in April. After waiting more than a...
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Meet the Dalits who are using online platforms to tell stories of their community -Danish Raza
-Hindustan Times Rather than feeling ignored by the mainstream media or disgruntled by the ‘biased’ coverage, Dalits are using digital space to publish news and opinions. On December 31, when violence spread in Pune on the 200th anniversary of the Bhima- Koregaon battle, it was the first time many people in other parts of the country got to know about the encounter between the army of Peshwa Bajirao II, and a...
More »The light bearer of Bulumgavan: the 26-year-old who transformed a village -Jyoti Shelar
-The Hindu Anand Joshi, a rural development fellow under CM’s programme, helped bring State Transport buses, and electricity after 70 years to a remote village in Amravati Mumbai: Anand Joshi (26), an MBA from MIT, Pune open university is reverently referred to as khambewala saab in Bulumgavan village in Amravati district. He finds the tag both daunting and amusing: “They call me that because of the electric poles that stand in their...
More »Private Schools flunk CBSE Class XII test -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Results bring under stress perception of pre-eminence New Delhi: Students from private Schools have continued to fare worse than their peers from government and government-aided Schools in the Central Board of Secondary Education's Class XII exams, whose results were announced on Saturday. The results appear to belie the popular perception that private Schools impart a higher quality of education than government and aided Schools. Some 83.01 per cent of the students passed,...
More »575 Delhi Schools To Refund Excess Fees. With 9% Interest -Maitree Baral
-NDTV.om The government has asked Schools to refund the fees to the parents, failing which strict action will be taken against them. New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party led Delhi government has taken tough stand against excess fees levied by Schools as part of its initiative 'rendering education as a service'. The government has asked Schools to refund the fees to the parents, failing which strict action will be taken against them....
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