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Religious schools out of RTE loop

-The Telegraph The Rajya Sabha today passed amendments that exempt madarsas and Vedic pathshalas, which impart religious teachings, from the Right to Education Act and grant reservation in private schools to disabled children. Another amendment clarified that school management committees in Aided minority schools would function only in an advisory capacity and would not be required to prepare the school development plan. The amendments will now go to the Lok Sabha. Some Aided minority...

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Rajya Sabha passes RTE Amendment Bill

-The Economic Times The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed an amendment to the Right to Education Act. The amendment will widen the beneficiary net for disabled children and provide those with severe disability the option of receiving education at home. It will also give school management committees an advisory role in minority schools, both Aided and unAided, and will put madarsas and vedic schools and other institutions providing primarily religious instruction outside...

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More questions than answers-CBS Venkataramana

It was Jawaharlal Nehru who sAid that ignorance is always afrAid of change. In the light of this, there is no doubt that the Right to Education (RTE) Act is a courageous piece of legislation. But the 25% reservation clause for poor students in unAided private schools in the Act could end up facing serious operational problems. According to the law, the State will pay the private schools that admit...

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Editor-in-Chief of Bihar-Dhirendra K Jha

How an image-fixated chief minister has bent the state’s media to his will If you haven’t heard of an income tax rAid on the residential premises of Nitish Kumar’s close Aide and treasurer of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Vinay Kumar Sinha, you are not alone. Thanks to the local media, it took a while even in Patna—where the house is located—for people to get to know. This, incidentally, is the...

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A Cowed-Down Nation-Meena Kandasamy

Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef? “The university and all teaching systems that appear simply to disseminate knowledge are made to maintain a certain social class in power, and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.... The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack...

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