-Outlook Anyone with internet access can get an education—from the best in their fields The Supreme Court last week allowed online counselling for admission to undergraduate courses in medical colleges. Under the scheme, students applying for all-India seats in medical colleges would be able to receive counselling in choosing their colleges online. While this is but a small development, for just a section of seats in medical colleges across India, coming...

-The Telegraph   Salboni, June 13: Teachers of a school in West Midnapore’s Jungle Mahal have been visiting the homes of students who are irregular, mainly because of poverty-related reasons, and motivating them to attend classes every day. The 25 teachers of Moupal Deshpran Vidyapith in Salboni have split themselves into two groups and are touring the 22 villages in the area from where the students come. The drive, in which the teachers...

-The Hindustan Times Culture and tradition have always been cited as the bedrocks on which our superior family values are founded. But like so many elevating qualities that we feel we are endowed with, this too is largely a myth. A recent survey by Child Rights and You found that one-third of Delhi feels that children should work as hard as adults and that they should be paid less. The invisibility...

-The United Nations On the occasion of World Day Against Child labour, two United Nations independent human rights experts today highlighted that of the 215 million children working throughout the world, more than half are subjected to the worst forms of Child labour, including sexual and labour exploitation. “One of the most abhorrent forms of child slavery is found in mining and quarrying, where children start work from the age of three,”...

-The Hindu The Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights is developing a protocol for elimination of Child labour with its contents devoted to various aspects of child trafficking, children being forced into hazardous occupations and rehabilitation of rescued Child labourers. Panel chairperson Deepak Kalra said at a workshop on Child labour here on Monday that the protocol would be submitted to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot with request for urgent action...