-Scroll.in The government has made the School mid-day meal contingent on being enrolled in the identity programme. India has the highest number of malnourished children in the world. You would imagine people in the government would be having sleepless nights thinking of ways to improve the nutrition and health of children. As it turns out, the government believes children need identity numbers more badly than they need food. The government has decided that...
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The salt farmers of wild ass country -Kavita Kanan Chandra
-The Hindu Under a searing sun, the Agariyas continue to make salt in the Little Rann of Kutch just as their ancestors have done down the ages A pair of black gum boots stands in the corner of Dhirubhai’s temporary shack, his home for eight months in the Little Rann of Kutch. The shack, built entirely of jute bags and plastic sheets and propped up by bamboo poles, houses nine members of...
More »Panel frowns on static scholarship amount -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has voiced shock that a scholarship for underprivileged meritorious students had not been revised since the scheme was launched in 2008, leaving it at less than half of what households now spend on average on a higher secondary student. According to a survey on social consumption, households spend Rs 12,619 a year on a plus-2 student's Schooling, while the yearly amount under the National Means-cum-Merit...
More »By next year, centralised admissions for nursery -Krittika Sharma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi government plans to centralise the nursery admission process starting next academic year. The proposal will enable parents to apply to their Schools of choice through a single online platform. The government wants to start the process of collecting data from private Schools from April this year, and introduce the system for the 2018-19 academic year. Officials said the centralised system will cover all 1,700 city...
More »Only NCERT books at all CBSE Schools -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: CBSE Schools will have to use NCERT textbooks from the 2017-18 academic session. The move to make National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) study materials mandatory for all Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Schools across the country is expected to standardise the curriculum across Schools in the country. The decision was taken at a review meeting chaired by Union minister for human resource...
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