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Why Kerala's public schools have seen a rise in student strength for the first time in 25 years -TA Ameerudheen

-Scroll.in With smart classrooms, English lessons and more, a government campaign is restoring parents’ confidence in public schools. For the first time in 25 years, public schools in Kerala registered a year-on-year increase in student enrolment this year. It is a significant ahievement given that 5,715 schools were functioning without adequate student strength till 2016. Data released by the education department last week showed that a little over 1.8 lakh students joined...

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UP's Musahars face such intense discrimination that even healthcare is denied to them -Tarun Kanti Bose

-Scroll.in Untouchability was outlawed in 1950, but discrimination and segregation of the scheduled caste remains pervasive. Musahars, a Scheduled Caste that sections of Hindu society deem untouchable, are still being denied government entitlements such as state pensions and housing. The discrimination is blatant when it comes to accessing government healthcare in Badagaon administrative block of Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous province. The scourge of discrimination is so pervasive that...

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14 lynchings in 10 states sparked by rumours of child snatchers on social media

-Hindustan Times The latest instance of a lynching triggered by rumours about kidnappers was in Tripura on Thursday. The victim was an activist hired by the state government to create awareness about misleading social media messages. New Delhi: Several fake social media videos and messages containing similar themes of outsiders stealing Children have claimed 14 lives across the country since May 20 despite police warning people not to believe in such rumours. Scores...

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80% groundwater in Punjab's Malwa unfit for drinking -Ishan Kukreti

-Down to Earth Much of the groundwater in Malwa, Punjab has chemicals exceeding permissible limits, putting Children at risk of a blood disorder Groundwater in Malwa region of Punjab is unfit for drinking and irrigation, according to a study published recently in the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, the official journal of the Saudi Society for Geosciences. The study also warns that Children in the region are highly vulnerable to methemoglobinemia, a blood...

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The skew in education -Shivani Nag

-The Indian Express Poor quality government schools make higher education out of reach for non-elite . That’s the real problem, not public-funded universities. In his article, ‘Let the elite pay’ (IE, June 23), Surjit Bhalla argues for the continuation of the highly discriminatory school and higher education systems that already provide education to most on the basis of ability to pay. He acknowledges that “Children of the poorest of the poor”do not...

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