-PTI Proper implementation of the Rights To Education Act can solve a host of problems faced by children in the country, NCPCR chairperson Santha Sinha said today."If the RTE is implemented in letter and spirit, many child related cases will be solved on their own," the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chief said.She expressed concern over non-implementation of RTE in many states and blamed lack of coordination among departments...
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Poverty set aside for village computer by Anirban Choudhury
Most of the residents of Ambadipa are farmers and almost all their monthly earnings are less than Rs 2,000. But that did not stop them from bringing technology to their village for their children. All the residents of this little hamlet tucked away in a Dooars block had contributed to buy the only computer that Ambadipa now boasts of. “It was difficult for us to pay, but we did it. All the...
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-The Business Standard Food security cannot be ensured by FCI and the existing PDS Successive drafts of the food security Bill seem to agree on one thing: a greater role for the Food Corporation of India (FCI). FCI buys grains at the minimum support price and distributes them through fair price shops and other food-related schemes like midday meals in Schools and children’s nutrition as part of the Integrated Child Development Services....
More »Deoband Slams Right to Education Act, to Oppose It by Abhishek Bajpai
Terming the Right to Education Act as an "attack" on the sovereignty of madarsas and other minority institutions, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband today said it will oppose it. "The seminary will strongly protest the move to snatch rights of madarsas through RTE and it is with the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which is already opposing it," newly-appointed vice-chancellor Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani told PTI. He said the Act poses...
More »Post-World War II, rural US started disappearing: Population Reference Bureau
-AP Rural America now accounts for just 16 percent of the U.S. population, the lowest ever. The latest 2010 census numbers hint at an emerging America where, by mid-century, city boundaries become indistinct and rural areas grow ever less relevant. Many communities could shrink to virtual ghost towns as they shutter businesses and close down Schools, demographers say. More metro areas are booming into sprawling megalopolises. Barring fresh investment that could...
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