-The Indian Express Demonstrations of success are necessary to uphold faith in education in rural areas. I have lived for part of the last several years in a small village not far from a busy tourist town in central India. There was no electric power when I first moved in. Many homes now have power, and most have cellphones. Nearly all children go to school, at least through the primary level. Ten years...
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Waiting for a tribal Kanshi Ram -Pheroze Vincent
-The Hindu Despite accounting for 21.1% - 1.53 crore - of the State's population, Madhya Pradesh's Adivasis are not a force to reckon with in State politics. There are a total of 46 tribes in MP, three of which are classified as ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups'. Bhils and Gonds form more than 70 per cent of the ST population. Kols, Korkus, Saharias and Baigas make up more than 20 per cent. Traditionally...
More »80% of 2,000 families want children to skip midday meals -Shikha Sharma
-The Indian Express New Delhi: Eleven-year-old Vidya clearly remembers the last time she ate a midday meal at school. It was three months ago, the day school authorities discovered a lizard in the food. "She carries her own lunch ever since. On days she doesn't, I give her lunch money to eat chole-kulche outside school," her mother Sangeeta Devi says. Sangeeta Devi isn't the only parent refraining her child from eating midday...
More »Karuna Slams Centre for Ignoring State on School Scheme
-Outlook Chennai: Describing the HRD Ministry's Model School Scheme initiative as yet another instance of Centre's interference in state rights, DMK president M Karunanidhi today asked the Tamil Nadu government to take up the matter with the Centre. The scheme envisages setting up 2500 model Schools under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode in educationally backward blocks in the country. With Union HRD Ministry inviting proposals from interested private entities, state government had been...
More »Discrepancies in school enrolment records: PIL -Aneesha Mathur
-The Indian Express New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to the Delhi government and CAG on a PIL alleging that private unaided Schools in Delhi had been submitting incorrect data on enrolment and receipt of fee. The special bench of Justice BD Ahmad and Justice Sidharth Mridul, which has been monitoring the issue of fee in private unaided Schools in Delhi, issued notice to the Department of Education,...
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