-Scroll.in The Centre for Science and Environment found that after last year’s fare revision, an average commuter spends 14% of their household income on metro travel. Of nine metropolitan cities across the world that have operational metro systems that charge less than half-a-US dollar for a 10-km trip, the Delhi Metro is the second most costly,The Times of India quoted a study by the Centre for Science and Environment as saying....
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Lynch panel meets on suggestions
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A group of ministers led by Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday deliberated on the recommendations that a panel had submitted last week as part of efforts to check lynchings following a Supreme Court prod to end such "acts of mobocracy". Among the suggestions that the panel, headed by Union home secretary Rajiv Gauba, had come up with was tightening of existing laws and action against India...
More »Still too many children out of school -Muchkund Dubey, Ashok Pankaj & Susmita Mitra
-The Hindu Data show that the proportion of these children is higher in rural areas and among SCs, STs and Muslims The official numbers of out-of-school children in India are either out of date or contradictory. According to the 2011 Census, the number of out-of-school children in the 5-17 age group was 8.4 crore. However, according to a survey commissioned in 2014 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the number of...
More »Over One Lakh Farmers and Workers Are Marching in Delhi. Here's Why. -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Organised by the All India Kisan Sabha, the farmers' and workers' demands range from an upward revision of minimum wages to remunerative prices for peasants. New Delhi: On August 29, Vijoo Krishnan, joint secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), was nervous. He reached the Ramlila Maidan in the evening and found it almost entirely submerged under water due to consistent rainfall and poor drainage mechanisms. “I thought to myself,...
More »Panel suggests including Indian Sign Language as a subject in schools
-Hindustan Times A panel has suggested including Indian Sign Language as a subject, offering Braille as a language option and providing various difficulty levels of core subjects for students with special needs as part of curriculum and examination reforms. New Delhi: A panel has suggested including Indian Sign Language as a subject, offering Braille as a language option and providing various difficulty levels of core subjects for students with special needs as...
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