-ThePrint.in A sum of Rs 56,536 crore was sanctioned to the school education department in 2019-20, from which the finance ministry is likely to cut Rs 3,000 crore. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is likely to cut the school Education Budget for 2019-20 by Rs 3,000 crore on account of a “funds crunch”, ThePrint has learnt. Highly-placed sources in the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry — which oversees education — said...
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In many countries, less than 5% of people benefit from adult learning opportunities: UNESCO -Mini Tejaswi
-The Hindu The UNESCO report was published by Institute for Lifelong Learning, based on data submitted by 159 countries, including India. Investments in adult learning and education (ALE) have steadily decreased in the last decade. Nearly a fifth of the UNESCO member countries reported spending less than 5% of Education Budget on ALE and a further 14% reported spending less than 1%, says a UNESCO report published by Institute for Lifelong Learning,...
More »Noted Gandhian economist Dr Sudarshan Iyengar interviewed by Rutam Vora (The Hindu Business Line)
-The Hindu Business Line Noted Gandhian economist Dr Sudarshan Iyengar surveys the distressed agricultural landscape, pinpoints its weaknesses, and prescribes solutions with their roots in Gandhian agronomics. Edited excerpts from an interview to BusinessLine: * Given the agrarian crisis in India today, how relevant are Gandhi's economic principles based on the village economy, and equitable distribution of resources? They are relevant in the context of Gandhi's view of gram swaraj (village self-rule), which...
More »Audit report on AES deaths puts Bihar govt in dock -Arun Kumar
-Hindustan Times An audit report by the accountant general has blamed lack of health policy to poor management of various government schemes for food, nutrition, sanitation, hygiene, health, education and overall welfare for AES deaths in Bihar. Bihar does not have a health policy and its budget also does not focus on any specific area of attention in health sector despite the scourge of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) for over a...
More »Policy by Whatsapp: A disregard of consequences in governing the new India -Samar Halarnkar
-Scroll.in Democracy requires a national character that isn’t grounded in ignorance and government policy that is not a sophisticated version of Whatsapp. It is now clear – 1,020 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi told India he was wiping out 85% of its currency, by value – that demonetisation was not just a failure but a spectacularly misconceived move. That its destructive effects took at least 100 lives in its immediate aftermath,...
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