-Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) and Child Rights and You (CRY) The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the lives of vulnerable children towards deep uncertainty resulting from household financial setbacks and School closures. Children who have lost parents or guardians too stare at a bleak present and future. Addressing concerns of their protection necessitates child-sensitive policy measures supported by adequate budgetary allocations. This policy brief maps the crises they have been...
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Bihar has Largest Digital Divide Among School Children, Followed by West Bengal, Finds ASER survey -Priyanka Ishwari
-Newsclick.in As per the latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021, Kerala (97.5%), Himachal Pradesh (95.6%) and Manipur (92.9%) are the best-performing states when it comes to School children with at least one smartphone at home. New Delhi: Even as online learning increasingly replaces traditional learning, around 45.6% of children enrolled in Schools in Bihar have no smartphone at home, according to the latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021....
More »Understanding the NCRB data on suicides with caution
The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...
More »School enrolment fell during pandemic: Annual Status of Education Report -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Yawning gap between States in access to online education, says the study. The percentage of rural children who were not enrolled in School doubled during the pandemic, with Government Schools seeing an increase in enrolment at the expense of private Schools, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021. Over a third of children enrolled in Classes 1 and 2 have never attended School in person. However, enrolment does...
More »Delhi shuts Schools, govt offices for a week due to air pollution, CM Kejriwal says no lockdown for now
-IndiaToday.in Schools and government offices in Delhi will be closed for a week starting Monday owing to air pollution, CM Arvind Kejriwal told the media. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Saturday that Schools in the national capital will be closed for a week starting Monday. The decision was taken to ensure that children do not breathe polluted air, Kejriwal told reporters following an emergency meeting with top officials at the...
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