-Live Mint We visited a rural West Bengal madrasa and its Hindu topper to find out whether the state can be a model for reform in madrasa education "None of the Hindu children should feel insecure, that's a strict message we give out to any new class," says Abu Layes Siddique, teacher of Arabic at the Bogdahara Sidikiya High Madrasah in West Bengal's Bankura district. It's a complete contrast to the long-prevailing...
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India is poorest in South Asia after Afghanistan: Oxford varsity study
-The Hindu Business Line Over 340 million destitute people live here, mostly in rural areas NEW DELHI: India is home to over 340 million destitute people and is the second poorest country in South Asia after strife-torn Afghanistan, says a poverty estimation study by Oxford University, UK. Forty per cent of all poor in 49 countries live in India, mostly in rural areas, according to the Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2014, a tool...
More »CBSE schools triple as board’s popularity grows across India -Vinamrata Borwankar & Hemali Chhapia
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The landscape of school education has for long promised a variety of options. Almost half-a-dozen school boards-local, national and international-offer Indian students a choice of academic algorithms for careers ahead. But of them all, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education), which was largely designed for those who moved home and could not be loyal to a state board, is picking up popularity across the nation. In 1996-97,...
More »Where are rural courts? -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts are still few and far between When a mobile court visited Luhari village in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district a year ago, it was a blessing for people like Birsan Singh. A tea vendor, Birsan would lose his daily income whenever he had to attend court. He...
More »A year after Uttarakhand floods, disregard for ecology continues -Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times In the din of elections and euphoria over new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the loss of hundreds of lives in one of the worst Himalayan tragedies in Uttarakhand has been forgotten. The policy correction promised after the tragedy remained mostly on paper and Uttarakhand is back to business as usual - developing but doing little to save the fragile local ecology. The core of the promises made was to check...
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