-Livemint.com If the govt is serious about boosting innovation, it should invest in higher education instead of rolling back Scholarships Mumbai: India has no dearth of innovation initiatives, both in the government and the private sector. Yet, the country continues to lag other developing nations. A recent survey called Contributors and Detractors: Ranking Countries’ Impact on Global Innovation, conducted by a US-based think tank, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), ranks...
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DBT in kerosene will help in better targeting of subsidy: FinMin
-PTI New Delhi: Direct transfer of kerosene subsidy to the bank accounts of users will help in better targeting of the benefits to those who actually deserve it, the Finance Ministry said today. The government had last night said it will roll out the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme for kerosene from April 1 where the users will buy the cooking fuel at market rate but will get financial support directly in...
More »10 years change little in minority education -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A rough comparison between a government survey of all the country's campuses and a more limited scan earlier by the Rajinder Sachar committee suggests that Muslims' participation in higher education has seen little improvement over the past decade. Sachar, a retired judge, told The Telegraph the latest findings buttressed his view that the UPA government had failed to adequately implement its educational schemes for the minorities, announced after...
More »IDs for 'invisible' children -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A Delhi government notification has paved the way for juvenile offenders and abandoned or surrendered children in the capital to get birth certificates if they lack one. The move, expected to be replicated across the country, will give lakhs of invisible children an official identity and make it easier for them to get into school and secure government welfare and documents, such as Scholarships, passports and PAN cards. Only...
More »It’s 'sushasan' vs. development -Vikas Pathak
-The Hindu In Bihar, ‘development’ comes laced with caste. For the upper castes, it is Modi’s pitch on investment that matters while for Backward Classes, Nitish’s social welfare agenda makes him a governance icon. The BJP, having no regional match for Nitish, has banked on Modi’s popularity. “Development” is a word that one encounters frequently across poll-bound Bihar, with people across caste lines using it to explain their political preferences. However, this...
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