Preferential admission to HIgher Education after serving in a rural place also the reason A medical practitioner's decision to join service in rural and remote areas is widely influenced by geographical affinities and familial associations. Preferential admission to HIgher Education after serving in a rural place was also cited as a reason though by few doctors. According to a qualitative research on ‘Factors Influencing Decisions of Doctors to Serve in Rural...

Education for all, concerted efforts to reduce poverty, enhancement of social protection and political commitment have been identified as some of the measures to tackle child labour. On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour on Saturday, several agencies including the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), International Labour Organisation, UNICEF, UNESCO and the corporate sector hailed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE)...

Can more knowledge about our society, about the individuals and groups who constitute it, be a bad thing? I’ve been wondering about this lately, in the context of two government initiatives to gather more knowledge about us Indians, as caste groups and as individuals. Both of these information-gathering exercises—the proposal for a “caste census”, which has generated a stormy argument, and the merely desultory discussion over the planned Unique Identification...

As the nation observes World Day Against Child Labour Saturday, NGO Child Rights and You (CRY) Friday said that unless agriculture is brought under the ambit of the child labour law, eradicating child labour as a whole will be a futile attempt. 'Agriculture accounts for as many as nearly 70 percent of India's 17 million child labourers, but is not included in the list of 16 occupations and 65 processes...

Universities to provide infrastructure Courses will meet needs of specific communities CHENNAI: At least ten community colleges will be started by each university to provide vocational training to unskilled workers by September 1, a meeting chaired by HIgher Education Minister K. Ponmudy decided on Wednesday. A. Ramasamy, Vice-Chairman, Tamil Nadu State Council for HIgher Education (TANSCHE), said universities would provide infrastructure and faculty support, while the Directorate of Technical Education would provide the...