-The Telegraph Several organisations demand special session after the counter-insurgency operation led to the SECurity forces killing 14 civilians at Oting in Mon district last week Guwahati: The Nagaland government has decided to hold a daylong special session of the Assembly to discuss the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the ongoing Naga political talks, stepping up pressure on the Centre to have the “abusive law” repealed. Several organisations, including the Naga Students’...
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ICDS Supervisors in UP Demand Pay Parity With Same-Grade Staff of Other Departments -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in Scores of Mukhya Sevikas are protesting in Lucknow against low salaries and delayed promotions. Lucknow: Scores of Mukhya Sevikas (supervisors) employed under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) across Uttar Pradesh (UP) are protesting against the Centre and the state government in Lucknow since Monday for not fulfilling their long-pending demands of pay parity with the staff of other departments like the SECretariat and the delay in promotions. Holding placards that read,...
More »Make the mental well-being of teachers a priority -Kishore Darak and Tasneem Raja
-The Hindu It is a very important first step in addressing the mental health and well-being of children scarred by the pandemic It is now clear that COVID-19 caught us all by surprise. The school education SECtor in India too struggled during the novel coronavirus pandemic. While online learning for children has had its fair share of challenges, including learning loss, fatigue from online learning to mental stress, there is another group...
More »Two years of CAA: For many protestors, the fight has shifted from the streets to the courts -Aishwarya Iyer
-Scroll.in Most of the prominent faces of the December 2019 protests battle police cases. These days, 24-year-old Sharjeel Usmani spends most of his time travelling from one Aligarh court to another for hazri, attendance. There are four cases against the Aligarh Muslim University student, all of them connected to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by Parliament on December 11, 2019. As the law was passed, protests erupted across the country and...
More »Kerala and Tamil Nadu bucked the trend of falling Total Fertility Rate, indicates the latest NFHS data
After the release of the SECond phase data of the National Family Health Survey Fifth Round (NFHS-5), media commentators and experts have written that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for India has gone down just below the replacement-level fertility. The TFR for the entire nation was 2.2 in 2015-16, which decreased to 2.0 in 2019-21. According to the United Nations, the replacement-level fertility is reached when the TFR of a...
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