-Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies World-renowned journalist P. Sainath has returned to Princeton to teach two courses, beginning this week, in the Program for South Asian Studies. The former rural affairs editor of The Hindu and award-winning "reporter" - he prefers the term to journalist - has devoted his career to telling the stories of India, uncovering the truth of social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermath of...
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Congress gets into survey mode in Rajasthan -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu Aim of the exercise is to map damage due to closure of 17,000 govt. Schools. Eight months after the BJP government closed down 17,000 government Schools in Rajasthan, dramatically pushing up the dropout rate largely among marginal communities, the Congress has decided to undertake a survey, starting in Jaipur's Amber block, to map the damage. Once the audit is over, a campaign to force the State government to reopen the closed...
More »27% govt School students fail Class IX exam, teachers blame RTE -Ifrah Mufti
-The Indian Express Chandigarh: Of the total 13,894 government School students who had appeared for class IX exam this year, 3,796 of them have failed in the final exams held in March. As these students could not qualify the 25% criteria to get promotion to the next class, they have been asked to re-appear in another exam, likely to be held soon. In case they flunk even this exam, they will...
More »Landmark study lies buried: How Delhi’s poisonous air is damaging its children for life -Pritha Chatterjee & Aniruddha Ghosal
-The Indian Express New Delhi: It doesn't get bigger than this, in size, scale and rigour - scientists from one of India's top cancer institutes tracked 11,000 Schoolchildren in Delhi for three years. They were drawn from 36 Schools, each within 3 km of a pollution-tracking station. This unprecedented study, by the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI), found that key indicators of respiratory health, lung function to palpitation, vision to blood...
More »Empower, don’t patronise, the farmer -Maitreesh Ghatak and Parikshit Ghosh
-The Indian Express The government's attempt to amend the UPA's land acquisition law is facing stiff resistance in Parliament and outside. The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Act, 2013, combined three different approaches to resolve conflict over land. One is to let money speak. It increased compensation amounts significantly. The second is to let farmers speak. Projects involving private companies had to earn the consent of 80 per cent of...
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