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Needed, education data that engages the poor parent -Priyadarshini Singh

-The Hindu What India lacks — and needs — is data which can hold the local vision of education and local actors accountable When the children of the poor cannot read and write, when they do not play and dance in school, can the poor speak and demand change? We gather data on enrolments, retention, learning, infrastructure, and teacher training to understand the state of our public school system. But is data...

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Trans people can register themselves, get benefits: UP government plan -Kishor Dwivedi

-The Telegraph CM Yogi Adityanath had on April 18 directed state government officials to carry forward welfare measures for transgender people Noida: The Social Welfare Ministry of Uttar Pradesh has proposed a first of its kind voluntary registration for transgender people in the state, aimed at devising welfare measures for the marginalised community, according to officials. The ministry has proposed a budget of Rs 200 crore for the welfare of transgender people...

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What Ignites Hatred In The Belly? -Ashutosh Sharma

-OutlookIndia.com The new welfarism as part of the neoliberal reforms undertaken in early 1990s is yet to ensure that all citizens receive enough nutritious food In December last year, Anjali—a student of MNM Government Girls School at Gangavati in Karnataka’s Koppal district—vented out her anger against deprivation of basic nutritious food, a chronic problem that plagues more than a quarter of India’s total population. In a viral rant, she called the bluff...

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Reality is stranger than the fad for online education -- most schools lack IT-infrastructure

Online teaching was perhaps the most preferred mode (of the policymakers) for imparting education to school children in the last two years when schools faced closures thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was promoted by both the Central and State Governments when mobility almost came to a standstill (or got restricted in comparison to normal times) during the last two years. However, various studies (a list of those studies is...

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COVID orphaned 10,600, says NCPCR -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu Child Rights Commission tells SC that 1.47 lakh children lost a parent during the pandemic The Supreme Court is worried for children, some as young as six year old, whose parents suddenly died of COVID-19, leaving behind unpaid debts, mortgages, loans and insurance premiums. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has so far identified 1,47,773 children who have lost one parent and another 10,600 who have become orphans...

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