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Yes to a government college, but no to government schools -Dipti Jain

-Livemint.com NSSO report shows that private schools are preferred over government schools due to better quality education New Delhi: While presenting the budget for Delhi last month, finance minister Manish Sisodia announced an expenditure of Rs.102 crore on training of teachers and principals in the new fiscal year. This was just Rs.9.4 crore last year. Sisodia said his aim was to bring government schools to world class standards in Delhi. While...

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Govt extends mid-day meal scheme for vacations

-The Times of India Raipur: To make sure that no kid sleeps without food in drought-hit areas even when their schools take a summer break, Chhattisgarh government has decided to continue the supply of midday meals during summer vacation as well. Around 26 lakh children in 117 tehsil of 25 districts will benefit with the move. An official circular issued by education secretary Subrat Sahu stated that all students of government schools...

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Flaws in mid-day meal scheme

-The Times of India Raipur: CAG has pointed out several deficiencies in the implementation of mid-day meal scheme in Chhattisgarh. The mid-day meal scheme was launched on August 15, 1995, by Centre to boost universalisation of primary education by increasing enrolment, retention and attendance, and simultaneously improving nutritional status of students in primary classes. The CAG report on General, Social and Economic (non-PSUs) for the year ended March 2015, which was...

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Who stole my broadband? -Thomas K Thomas & Pratim Ranjan Bose

-The Hindu Business Line BusinessLine goes to villages, including those visited in 2014, to understand the progress of the ambitious National Optical Fibre Network. Unused infrastructure and low awareness tell a story of missed links In one corner of the Ramnagar village panchayat office, in Panisagar block of Tripura, is a defunct four-year-old computer. The machine, connected with a 10 mbps broadband line was supposed to bring digital services to this remote...

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‘Policy on rare diseases will make treatment affordable, inclusive’ -Cinthya Anand

-The Hindu Patients face discrimination because public health systems and schools are not equipped to deal with the problem Bengaluru: “The cost of my daughter's treatment is around Rs. 1 crore per annum. If it were not for the aid of a United States-based foundation, I would not be able to help her,” said Prasanna B. Shirol, founder-director, Organisation for Rare Diseases India. His teenage daughter suffers from Pompe Disease, a rare...

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