-The Hindu A committee comprising representatives of people from different walks of life has been constituted for ensuring the entry of Dalits into the caste Hindu areas in Perali village near here. Members of the committee ensured that the Dalits were permitted to ride their bicycles on the streets dominated by caste Hindus in the village. On Tuesday, a group of Dalits along with their wards rode their bicycles. The committee was constituted...
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Private schools may now come under RTI Act by Manash Pratim Gohain
Private schools may no longer be able to refuse to provide information under the RTI Act under the pretext of being a 'private authority'. The Central Information Commission (CIC), in a recent hearing against a private school, ruled that the school, which receives substantial funds from the government and was controlled by different agencies under the Delhi administration, including the DDA and the Directorate of Education, comes under the ambit...
More »People prefer PDS over cash transfers
What is government planning to do with the Public Distribution System (PDS)? The answer lies in an old adage: Give a dog bad name and hang him! The common impression is that the PDS is not working because of pilferage and hence it is taken as a foregone conclusion that it needs to be replaced with cash transfer. Two empirical studies conducted recently, one of them by noted economists Jean Dreze...
More »Sibal, Montek differ on foreign education bill by Akshaya Mukul & Nitin Sethi
Considered reformists in the Manmohan Singh government, HRD minister Kapil Sibal and Planning Commission deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia are not on the same side when it comes to Foreign Education Providers Bill and a slew of other educational legislations being planned by the HRD ministry. Ahluwalia's criticism has come out in the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. After a lot of initial enthusiasm, the HRD ministry is going slow on Foreign Education...
More »How group of volunteers kept Ramlila Maidan clean only for Anna Hazare
-IANS From collecting mounds of garbage, removing slush caused by rains to cleaning toilets, a group of volunteers, mostly students from premier medical and engineering colleges, kept Ramlila Maidan, the nerve centre of Anna Hazare's movement, clean at a time when it saw unprecedented footfall on all the 13 days of his fast. Initially, most of these students came to lend support to Anna Hazare's movement against corruption, but swayed by the...
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