-The Hindu In the week of the survey in September, about one in three rural children had done no learning activity at all. About 20% of rural children have no textbooks at home, according to the Annual State of Education Report (ASER) survey conducted in September, the sixth month of school closures Due to COVID-19 across the country. In Andhra Pradesh, less than 35% of children had textbooks, and only 60% had...
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Over one-third of judges’ posts lie vacant in 12 high courts. So much for collegiums -Arvind Kumar
-ThePrint.in Bihar, one of India’s most populous states, has the highest judges’ vacancy in its high court. That says a lot about India’s ability to render timely justice. The number of pending cases in India’s higher judiciary and the number of vacancies in the Supreme Court and the high courts have been simultaneously increasing. The number of pending cases, which is directly related to the judge-to-population ratio, is an important tool to...
More »Farmers in Uttar Pradesh feel the pinch as potato prices touch record highs -Siddharth Kalhans
-Business Standard Potato seed is selling for Rs 60-70 per kg in the open market this year as compared to Rs 18-22 earlier. Crop area of potato is set to reduce this year Due to high rates of seeds Lucknow: With potato rates touching a new high every day, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are finding it difficult to acquire seeds. In the crop season, farmers are forced to buy potato seeds at...
More »Why the new farm laws will not level the playing field -Arjun Harkauli
-Down to Earth Creation of unregulated private points of sale will only ensure that the produce continues to be sold as before — at below MSP and without any government support More than 86 per cent farmers in India own or cultivate on less than two acres of land and have little surplus to sell. They are the victims of middlemen (arthiya) at the mandis (local exchange markets) and are forced, by...
More »Writing on the wall: Infrastructure projects are destroying Western Ghats -Veena Poonacha
-Down to Earth The time to put off the inevitable question about human relationship to nature is long past. Our assumption that we can control and modify nature without repercussions is a fallacy Lofty mountains that touch the azure skies, gentle hills clothed in dense tropical forests and evergreen valleys — the Western Ghats nurture a variety of ecosystems not found in any other part of the world. Spread over 164,280 square kilometres,...
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