-The Times of India The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Tuesday asked the state government to take stringent action against those schools who were violating the Right to Education Act, 2009. Taking suo motu cognizance of a TOI report, 'Residential Schools Violate RTE Norms' published on December 20, which talked about how elite residential schools like Mayo College,Mayo College Girls (both in Ajmer), Delhi Public School (Jaipur), Neerja...
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Elite residential schools violate RTE norms by Shoeb Khan
Residential schools in the state are the latest additions to the bandwagon of private elite schools contravening the provisions of the national Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009. TOI did a reality check by calling them impersonating as parents and going through their websites. These schools are planning to hold a screening procedure in the form of interactions with parents of students seeking admissions at the elementary level and in primary...
More »Not just tribal adults, even kids turn bonded labourers by Yogesh Pawar
Viju Diwa is barely 11. So it seems strange to see him carrying bricks on his head. “He is not a labourer here,” Kisan Mhatre, a brick kiln owner of Mharal village outside Mumbai’s far northern suburb of Kalyan protests and shouts at his father and worker Arjun, 30. “They push their children into labour and then the government, the media and everyone comes to trouble us,” says Mhatre. When this DNA...
More »Malnourished baby dead, parents booked 6 months later for ‘negligence’ by Milind Ghatwai
Six months after she died, police in Bhopal have acted on the death of a two-year-old, malnourished girl. They have booked her parents, charging them with “causing death by negligence”. Activists say that this is perhaps the first instance in India where parents have been blamed for death caused by malnourishment. Adviser to Supreme Court commissioners in the right to food case Sachin Jain said the administration always tried to push malnutrition...
More »Social media to drive movement against corruption: Survey
-IANS Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Orkut are emerging as an important tool to drive movement against corruption and bring positive change in the society, a survey has revealed. In a nationwide survey conducted amongst the youth of India, nearly 76 percent of youth believe that social media empowers them to bring change to the world we live in. They are convinced that causes for women and movements against corruption can...
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