The 25 per cent admission quota for children from poor families in Right to Education Act (RTE) has thrown up an avoidable headache for budget private schools in underprivileged areas. Managements of such schools say the regulation is not required as far as they are concerned. Budget private schools are low-cost private schools providing education to children from slums and rural areas. “We welcome the RTE Act; I think it should have happened...
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Education experts pitch for major changes in RTE Act by Rashmi R Parida
The goals of the Right to Education (RTE) Act are unrealistic and unachievable in its entirety education experts and policymakers said at a conference here today, and endorsed the need for more dialogues with civil society, government agencies and educational service providers to bring the landmark legislation to fruition. There is an imperative need to look afresh into the RTE Act, iron out its ambiguities and...
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-Press Information Bureau The National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation (NSTFDC) has launched an Education Loan Scheme for students belonging to scheduled Tribes in the country in the month of November, 2011. The requirement for availing benefits of the scheme are that the annual family income of the Scheduled Tribe candidate shall be upto double the poverty line and the candidate is willing to pursue technical/professional education, including Ph.D. in...
More »Capital's poor fight for survival in winter by Jiby Kattakayam
The city is estimated to have upwards of 88,000 people living on the streets Each evening this winter, as MPs have debated India's political future, more than 100 people have been gathering at a municipal park behind the Bangla Sahib gurdwara. The area has dozens of groups of protesters who arrive in the city each time Parliament is in session, to make their voices heard. The people in the park, though, aren't...
More »AMU women undergrads may get Library access by Chinki Sinha
Thousands of undergraduate women students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) may finally be able to access the university Library — after a struggle spanning several decades. While students enrolled in professional courses are allowed to use the resources of the Maulana Azad Library (MAL), which is one of the best libraries in the country, those in non-professional courses can’t go past the MAL gates. Union HRD Minister Kabil Sibal on Wednesday assured...
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