-ThePrint.in Recipient of the 2021 Yida Prize for Education Development, Dr Rukmini Banerji said the education sector in India still has a long way to go. New Delhi: The policy framework for the new National Education Policy (NEP) may be in place, but collaboration among various government departments is the only way forward, said Dr Rukmini Banerji, CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation. In an interview with ThePrint, Banerji, who was the recipient...
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Only Half of World's Workers Hold Jobs Corresponding to Their Education: ILO Report -Ditsa Bhattacharya
-Newsclick.in In high and upper-middle-income countries, around 20% of all employed are overeducated; the corresponding share for lower-middle-income countries is around 12.5%, while in low-income countries it is less than 10%. Only half of the workers worldwide hold jobs corresponding to their level of education, according to a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The report pointed out that many people are working in jobs that do not match their...
More »Delhi Master Plan 2041: What will it really take to create a city without slums? -Gautam Bhan
-Scroll.in The In-Situ Slum Rehabilitation model offered by planners is deeply flawed. Let us assume that the Goal is uncontested – Delhi, in 2041, should be without the inadequate housing, absent services, and insecure tenure that define the “slum” or the “jhuggi jhopdi cluster”. Getting there is not easy. Delhi has over 757 jhuggi jhopdi clusters that house (officially) between 11%-15% of the city’s population in neighbourhoods not just materially vulnerable but lacking...
More »Wall of Grief: Internet memorial for Covid victims -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph Reporters’ Collective started the online initiative for ‘demanding answers’ in terms of how the system worked for some and failed others Till now, burning pyres on sprawling grounds and riverbeds and overflowing crematoriums had borne testimony to the enormity of the tragedy. Now, those who died during the pandemic in India are being immortalised on an online “Wall of Grief”. “Our Goal is not to criticise. We want people to come...
More »ICMR ‘Tailored’ COVID Findings to Meet Modi’s ‘Optimistic’ Narrative: NYT
-TheWire.in Scientists described a 'culture of silence' at ICMR, with researchers worried that they would be passed over for opportunities if they questioned their superiors. New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)’s top leadership “tailored” the agency’s findings on the spread of COVID-19 and its possible trajectory to suit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s agenda and pressured scientists to downplay the threat posed by the pandemic, New York Times has reported. The...
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