If it took six decades for the Central government to honour the constitutional commitment to provide free and compulsory education to all children in the age group of 05-14 by putting in place the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2010, the State governments, barring a few, have failed to complete the necessary spadework even a year after the law was enacted. The spadework related to...
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HRD initiates move to extend RTE till the secondary level by Akshaya Mukul
The HRD ministry has taken the first step towards extending the Right to Education till the secondary level by making it part of the agenda of next month's meeting of state education ministers and the Central Advisory Board of Education. Sources say the idea of extending RTE is at the stage of infancy but the ministry is keen that the process should begin at right earnest so that it becomes...
More »Pranab promises consultations on draft Lokpal Bill by K Balchand
It was a warm summer’s morning last week in teeming old Faridabad, a chaotic, industrial town where nearly half the people live in slums. Praveen Kumar was talking to students at a government girls’ senior secondary school. They complained about the broken fans, and they told him how there was just one sweeper to clean the stinky toilet. A lean, graying man with a receding hairline and neatly trimmed moustache, 51-year-old...
More »Comprehensive study on impact of Jaitapur project on flora, fauna
-The Hindu BNHS Director A.R. Rahmani to head the NPCIL's study The National Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) plans to undertake a comprehensive study to understand the possible effects of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project on the marine ecology and biodiversity in the area. Five environmental organisations will participate in the study, which will be headed by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Director A.R. Rahmani. In a letter, NPCIL chairperson and...
More »Near-consensus on no-fail policy by Alexandre Moniz Barbosa
Educationists are questioning the retrospective nature of the no-fail policy that was made applicable to schools in Goa earlier this month through a circular, days after the results of the last academic year had been declared. While there appears to be a near consensus that the policy will be beneficial, the haste with which the directorate of education (DoE) is implementing this, is leading to various questions being raised. "It...
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