Around 10 platoons of armed police came to Gobindpur in the morning and went back to their camps, citing “inclement weather”. But long before the cops came, Biswambar Mohanty, a Std 9 student of Kapteswar Vidyapitha of Gobindpur village, was up there with a torn umbrella at the sandy fields that separated Gobindpur and Nuagaon. Just a few feet away, a barefoot Soni Parmanik, 5, clad in a grimy yellow frock,...
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Exempted from RTE Act, JNVs to hold screening tests next month
-Express News Service The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) will conduct the screening examinations for Class VI from July 10, after having delayed the exams for almost six months while they secured an exemption from the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education that prohibits screening tests for admission to schools. “Because of this confusion, we have already delayed our examinations. We are under the specified category, and hence exempt from...
More »Right to education to remain curtailed after July 5 too by Rashmi Belur
Right to education (RTE) in Karnataka is likely to remain circumscribed even after July 5, the day fixed by the state government to implement the RTE Act. The implementation is certain to run into a plethora of problems as the state is waiting for a response from the Centre on sharing the financial burden of enforcing the law. Primary and secondary education minister Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri said, “We have brought the...
More »Pullout a painful decision: Tata Motors
-The Hindu Tata Motors on Tuesday said it would take appropriate steps after studying the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill, 2011, which pertains to the plot leased by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) to the company and its vendors. The Bill was passed by the Assembly by voice vote amid Opposition walkout earlier in the day. Tata Motors said it was an immensely painful decision for it to pull...
More »Will the govt amend the RTE, ask experts
-Deccan Chronicle Even as the Right to Education (RTE) Act is yet to be implemented in schools, and the details are being endlessly debated, experts are now wondering whether the government intends to amend the RTE. Legal experts perceive a change in the way this free and compulsory education for all legislation is mandated. There is pressure on the Ministry of Human Resource Development as well several petitions lined up...
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