-TheWire.in Various remedies are being suggested to tackle the growing rate of unemployment, but are they in tandem with the needs of the workers? Two issues were concealed under the din of elections. The first is the depth of the agrarian crisis with rising costs, falling prices and diminishing livelihoods. The second is the declining rate of employment in urban India, even within the informal sector, and the tumult among the youth...
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DoE finds 73 government schools with pass percentage of below 50 in X Boards -Shradha Chettri
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Unlike the Class XII results, the performance of Delhi government schools in CBSE’s Class X Examination has been a cause of concern. While 73 schools have recorded a pass percentage of less than 50%, 88 schools have witnessed a dip in the same by more than 20% points, reveal official documents. Although the overall pass percentage has improved by 2.64% points to 71.97% this year, Delhi...
More »506 students from Telangana?s tribal and social welfare schools crack JEE Mains
-TheNewsMinute.com Out of the 506 students who have cleared the exam, 307 are from social welfare residential institutions and 199 from tribal welfare institutions. For the first time ever, 506 students belonging to the Telangana Tribal Welfare Residential Educational Institutions (TTWREIs) and Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions (TSWREIs) cracked the JEE Mains, 2019 and have qualified for JEE Advanced to be held this month. This comes as an achievement since it is...
More »Rahul Gandhi savours rural job scheme success in Kerala tribal woman's IAS feat -KM Rakesh
-The Telegraph Rahul cited Sreedhanya’s achievement in Wayanad as evidence that the job scheme was working and took a dig at Narendra Modi Kalpetta (Kerala): The first tribal woman from Kerala to qualify for the IAS told Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday that her parents were beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Sreedhanya Suresh said her parents had educated their two children with the money they earned from the rural...
More »A strange paradox for Indian women -Sonalde Desai
-The Hindu Better education is not leading to better job opportunities, marriage prospects or freedom of movement Abigail Adams, wife of the second President of the U.S. and mother of the sixth President, wrote to her husband, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion.” As last year’s #MeToo movement and Sabarimala protests showed, perhaps Indian women are echoing her and are...
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