-TheIndiaForum.in There is ample scientific and epidemiological evidence to indicate it is safe to reopen Schools for children of all ages. It is not a question of whether to reopen Schools, but what should be done to bring children back to the classroom. For most infections affecting humans, the young and old are most at risk while adults enjoy relatively more protection. If this age distribution is plotted on a graph, it...
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29 million students don’t have access to devices: Govt report -Fareeha Iftikhar
-Hindustan Times According to the data, as many as 29.6 million students from 19 states and five UTs were found to be without digital devices during the surveys conducted by these states and UTs. A report released by Union education ministry on Wednesday said that 29 million school students do not have access to digital devices as per data collected from 24 states and Union Territories (UTs) until June -- data that...
More »3,197 Schools in Odisha have just one teacher, reveals UNESCO report
-The New Indian Express The UNESCO report states that in Odisha, all recruitment so far have been indirect, conducted via promotions and regularisation of the existing contractual teachers. BHUBANESWAR: AS many as 3,197 Schools across Odisha - both government and private - are functioning with just one teacher. Worse, 88 per cent (pc) of these Schools are located in rural Odisha. This has been revealed by UNESCO in its ‘No Teacher, No...
More »Mid-Day Meal Renamed PM POSHAN: New Name, Reduced Budgets -Eisha Hussain
-Behanbox.com New Delhi: The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN), a modified version of the existing National Scheme for Mid-Day Meal in Schools (MDM) on 29 September, 2021. The MDM scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme under which the government provides one hot cooked meal to all children studying in classes 1 to 8 in...
More »Beyond the Big Promises, 'PM Poshan' Is Old School Meal on New Plate -Dipa Sinha
-TheWire.in Narendra Modi has taken a well-functioning but underfunded scheme and added his 'branding' to it. The least he could have done is allocated the kind of money the programme badly needs. On September 29, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the ‘National Scheme for PM Poshan’ in Schools, details of which have been put out in a press release. While full scheme details are not yet available, this news...
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