-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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Is tardy monsoon a cause for worry? -Vinson Kurian
-The Hindu Business Line A short delay does not impact sowing as there is a sufficient window The onset of monsoon over Kerala has been less than reassuring. Not only is it late by five days compared with the normal date of June 1, but it has also faiLED to arrive in the eight-day window set around the median of May 30. The conspicuous lack of flourish has LED many to doubt...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Monday sought to downplay its health advisory allowing "two-finger test" on rape survivors. It stated that the advisory was misinterpreted and they will come up with a fresh notification to completely ban the archaic test for ascertaining sexual assault. "We want to make it clear that finger test is banned completely for ascertaining sexual assaults. More scientific methods will be adopted for...
More »Legal status, lack of coordination holding up Aadhaar and DBT -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The SC directive that Aadhaar can’t be made mandatory for any service — which the government can’t oppose until Aadhaar gets legal validity — has complicated the issue. On January 1, 2013, the Congress-LED UPA government launched the Direct Benefits Transfer scheme, centred around the Aadhaar project begun a few years earlier. Teething troubles and implementation bottlenecks followed, the interest of the outgoing dispensation waned, and both Aadhaar...
More »How Jaya Devi used Rain Water Harvesting to Fight Naxalites & Moneylenders in her Village in Bihar -Shreya Pareek
-TheBetterIndia.com Bihar: She was just 12 when she got married. After this, she not only went on to change her life but also LED to the development of her entire village. From fighting with Naxalites to planting trees and doing rain water harvesting, Jaya Devi is truly the “Green Lady” of Bihar. Jaya Devi was just 12 when she got married and 16 when she delivered a baby girl. Like many others,...
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