-ThePrint.in ThePrint travelled across 3 UP districts in top 5 of Niti Aayog’s Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index, which measures deprivation in terms of health, Education, living standards. Shravasti/Bahraich/Balrampur: Danish Mansoori, 20, thinks he is one of the “lucky ones”. In 2020, he left his hometown Bhinga in Uttar Pradesh’s Shravasti district for a bachelor’s degree in ayurveda, medicine, and surgery (BAMS) from a paramedical college. However, his destination was not Mumbai, Delhi, or...
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DMK MP P Wilson interviewed by Ragamalika Karthikeyan (TheNewsMinute.com)
-TheNewsMinute.com “The suggestion to have a uniform syllabus across the country and a single board is the brainchild of the right wing, which wants to create a homogenous nation, in place of the wonderfully diverse and multicultural society we have now.” In the crucial debate around federalism and states’ rights, one of the biggest issues is Education. The subject was moved from the State List of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution...
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-Press statement by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated February 21, 2022 We note, with deep concern and anguish, the active prevention of muslim women from attending government schools and colleges, on the grounds that they wear the hijab, a headscarf. This move violates not just the fundamental rights of these women, including those of freedom (Article 19, 25) and equality (Article 14), but also their right to...
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-PTI/ NDTV Finance secretary T V Somanathan on Monday said healthcare is primarily the responsibility of the states Mumbai: Finance secretary TV Somanathan on Monday said healthcare is primarily the responsibility of the states, amid suggestions by the industry that the budgetary allocation for the sector is still low at 1.3 per cent of GDP. At a post-budget interaction of industry representatives in Mumbai with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Confederation of Indian Industry...
More »Hijab row likely to hit Education of Muslim women, experts fear -KV Aditya Bharadwaj
-The Hindu Many students have vowed not to enter classrooms without their hijabs Bengaluru: Young women wearing religious headscarves tearfully pleading to be allowed entry into schools and colleges with many vowing not to remove their hijabs has raised concerns on the impact this will have on their Education. While the case is in the High Court of Karnataka, several writers and activists from the Muslim community and Education experts have expressed fear...
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