-TheWire.in While the announcement and achievement are significant, it must be noted that electrification of villages does not translate into electrification of households and is certainly no guarantee for power availability. New Delhi: After missing the initial deadline of May 2017, the Narendra Modi government announced on Sunday morning that the electrification of all inhabited villages in India has been completed. While the announcement and achievement are significant, it is still largely symbolic...
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House panel rap on govt for slashing school funds share
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has criticised the government over the "decreasing" budgetary allocation for school education in terms of its share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the tardy progress in setting up Navodaya schools. In terms of the GDP share, the allocation has been declining for the past five years. The allocation of Rs 50,000 crore for 2018-19 is Rs 15,000 crore less than what the school...
More »Government okays Rs 2,919cr Nirbhaya fund for creating 'safe cities'
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday approved projects worth Rs 2,919 crore under the Nirbhaya Fund for creating “safe cities” with special focus on women safety in public spaces and quick response systems to create deterrence against crime. Eight cities where these initiatives will take shape include Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Lucknow. Between 2013 and 2017, the corpus of Nirbhaya Fund has grown to...
More »Midday meal split call to beat hunger -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A pilot study on the midday meal scheme has recommended splitting it into light snacks and a light meal because it found that 70 per cent children in government schools were coming to class on an empty stomach and failing to focus on studies. The study, conducted by the NGO Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute in the Sohawal and Masauda blocks of Faizabad district in Uttar Pradesh, reported that...
More »Incredible children and their flying minds -Saba Naqvi
-The Tribune 54 pilot schools in Delhi are changing perception towards schools run by the government Let’s confess. Most of us who complain about the government, on TV and in print, do not need to use government services such as schools and hospitals. The condition of roads impacts our perception of how a government is performing because our air-conditioned cars occasionally travel on those roads — good or bad. If we see...
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