The state is not serious about the need for a robust programme of elementary teacher education to realise the right to education. IN India today it is difficult to decide how the agenda for teacher education and its reform can be taken forward. The Right to Education will succeed only if teachers are able to work to ensure that all children do become educated by attending school; effectively, this means...
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Ending Indifference: A Law to Exile Hunger? by Harsh Mander
Can we agree in this country on a floor of human dignity below which we will not allow any human being to fall? No child, woman or man in this land will sleep hungry. No person shall be forced to sleep under the open sky. No parent shall send their child out to work instead of to school. And no one shall die because they cannot afford the cost of...
More »Jawaharlal Nehru's book now in Braille
-The Hindu To give visually-challenged persons a chance to read history of civilisation penned by country's first Prime Minister, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is releasing the Braille edition of Jawaharlal Nehru's “Letters from a Father to his Daughter” at its Teen Murti House premises here this coming Monday. The Braille version, embossed by Lal Bihari Shah Braille Academia, Blind Persons' Association, Kolkata, will be released by Social Justice and Empowerment...
More »Outsider in own home, Maharashtra village wrests control of forest produce sale by Jaideep Hardikar
If the problems are macro, think micro. That seems to have been the guiding principle for Lekha-Mendha, the Maharashtra village that last month became the first in India to win the right to grow, harvest and sell bamboo. Such rights are the key goal of a five-year-old central law which aims to give tribal communities control over some resources of the jungles they live in. “There is no point in looking out...
More »Gujarat releases Braille version of RTI by Manas Dasgupta
A Braille version of the Right to Information Act and its rules was released here on Thursday by the Gujarat Information Commission for the benefit of the visually challenged. According to Chief Information Commissioner R.N. Das, Gujarat is the first State to bring out a Braille version. He said the Commission was also working on bringing out an audio CD for the visually challenged and other Differently abled people to explain...
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