-The Telegraph If the NCTE proposals are accepted, they will be able to get promotions like their peers in colleges and universities The Centre is set to introduce performance-linked promotion for schoolteachers. The National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE), the apex regulatory body on teacher education, is holding consultations with teachers and other stakeholders on a draft National Professional Standards for Teachers (NPST) document prepared by it. It is not clear whether the...
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79% of Indian households experienced ‘food insecurity’ last year, shows survey
-Scroll.in The ‘Hunger Watch’ survey, conducted across 14 states, calculated ‘food insecurity’ based on a scale developed by UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. A total of 79% of Indian households across 14 states which responded to the second “Hunger Watch” survey reported some form of “food insecurity” in 2021. As much as 25% of the families said that that they faced “severe food insecurity”, the survey report released on Wednesday showed. The survey...
More »India’s second COVID-19 wave too saw penury: study -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Hunger Watch-2 finds income dip and hunger, despite no national lockdown. India’s second wave that didn’t see a national lockdown like in the first failed to significantly alleviate economic distress and hunger among the poor, according to a survey of 6,500 respondents in 14 States. The survey, Hunger Watch–2, was commissioned by the Right To Food Campaign and The Centre for Equity Studies from December–2021 to January 2022 to evaluate economic...
More »Child welfare scheme saw hike of 390%: Smriti Irani
-The Hindu Minister was responding to a tweet from Rahul Gandhi which cited a news report on allocations for children being slashed by half Union Minister Smriti Irani has said that a children-centric scheme of the government had seen a “390%” increase in budgetary allocations since 2014. She was responding to a tweet by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. On Monday, Mr. Gandhi retweeted a news report on “share” of budgetary allocation for children...
More »Data check: Three out of four prisoners in Indian jails are undertrials -Nileena Suresh
-India Spend/ Scroll.in While the total number of prison inmates rose by 1% between 2019 and 2020, the number of undertrial inmates increased by nearly 12% Three in four prisoners in India’s jails are under trial, according to government data for the year 2020, the latest year for which such data is available. This is the highest share of undertrial detainees in prison since at least 1995, the earliest year for which...
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