-Medianama.com Due to issues related to their Aadhaar data, 59 lakh school students in Maharashtra may lose out on availing mid-day meal services. 59 lakh school students in Maharashtra may lose out on availing services such as mid-day meals, and free uniforms and books due to issues related to their Aadhaar data, according to a report by the Hindustan Times. Of these, over 19 lakh students in the state do not have...

-The Telegraph Anaemia Mukta Lakhya Abhiyan programme to be rolled out in 55,000 government and government-aided schools and 74,000 Anganwadi Centres across the state Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Wednesday launched AMLAN — Anaemia Mukta Lakhya Abhiyan — in the state. AMLAN is a multipronged approach for accelerated reduction of anaemia among targeted groups. The programme will be rolled out in 55,000 government and government-aided schools and 74,000 Anganwadi Centres across the state. The programme will...

-Newsclick.in Many farmers also brought uprooted electric meters from their tube wells, dumped them on the premises of PVVNL and asked the officials to deposit them in the office. Lucknow: Farmers from across Western Uttar Pradesh intensified their ongoing protest by allegedly holding government officials hostage for several hours inside the Paschim Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd (PVVNL) under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU). The protest is against installing electric meters...

--Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency dated November 9, 2022 The Delhi government had announced the closure of primary schools last week, as recommended by the NCPCR, owing to the air pollution crisis in the city. While the concern about the health and well-being of children is certainly valid, the response to such a crisis needs to take into account other contributing factors such as the importance of...

-The Telegraph One reason for the shift to private schools is the inadequate number of government institutions What government schools lacked in glamour they once made up in width and depth of study and aspirations towards social inclusiveness. The recent growth of private schools suggests that even their academic credentials have become suspect. According to the Global Education Monitoring Report, 2022 by Unesco, in the last eight years, seven out of 10...