-The Indian Express To improve the educational status of Scheduled Castes, a fresh understanding of their achievements and challenges is necessary. The concern of scholars, planners and policymakers has been to achieve the goals set in our Constitution: equality, justice and equal opportunity for all. However, in the period after Independence, it was revealed that education was not necessarily linked to social and economic development and the majority of Indians continued...
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Universal healthcare: the affordable dream -Amartya Sen
-The Guardian Universal healthcare is often presented as an idealistic goal that remains out of reach for all but the richest nations. That's not the case, writes Amartya Sen. Look at what has been achieved in Rwanda, Thailand and Bangladesh Twenty-five hundred years ago, the young Gautama Buddha left his princely home, in the foothills of the Himalayas, in a state of agitation and agony. What was he so distressed about?...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Raising student fees without paying teachers' as per the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations isn't the only violation private unaided schools are guilty of. Replies to a batch of RTI queries, many of them filed with the northwest district, show that numerous schools have decided on a fee hike at meetings where no Directorate of Education nominee was present. The former MLA of Model Town, Akhilesh...
More »Teachers' Day: Most teachers get a pittance for pay -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Teacher's Day was never so big, ever since it was designated as such, back in 1962. That's because of the planned address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to thousands of school children. But, what about the teachers who will gather their flock for the big day? Nearly 43% of school teachers in India are now working under privately managed schools. That's about 4.2 million teachers, of...
More »All schools must have separate toilets for girls and boys: Supreme Court -M Suchitra
-Down to Earth Apex court says toilets, drinking water facilities are integral to RTE Act; pulls up Andhra Pradesh government for not ensuring these facilities in its schools The Supreme Court has ruled that all schools must have separate toilets for boys and girls, and also facilities for water for drinking and other purposes. The court's May 9 verdict has made it clear that these were integral to Right of Children...
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