-The Times of India With the Supreme Court bringing all recognized schools under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the government will have to boost spending on its flagship programme to meet the estimated Rs 2.3 lakh crore needed to fund the initiative over 2010-2014. RTE has been plagued with fund shortfalls with budgetary provision in the last two years being only half of what was estimated. The HRD ministry received Rs...
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RTE law and a court judgment won't fix broken public education system
-The Economic Times The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Constitutional validity does not mean sense - after all, being stupid is not illegal. Public opinion is most exercised about all schools, even those that get no aid from government, being asked to provide 25% of their seats free to poor students. The court has pronounced this a blow for affirmative action. Private schools...
More »Parks, sanctuaries on mining no-go list soon-Nitin Sethi
A panel set up to review norms for no-go areas that will protect certain areas from commercial activity is likely to recommend mining should be disallowed in all national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the country. Sources in the government told TOI that the committee, headed by the Union environment and forests secretary, is likely to close the debate over no-go areas as it is not inclined to reassess protected areas...
More »'Food Safety Act Provisions Not Favourable for India'
-PTI Political leaders may have divergent views on implementation of provisions of Food Safety and Standards Act 2006, but a senior social scientist here feels that it may not be in the interest of countries like India in view of its socio-economic conditions. "The Act in my opinion is not in favour of India in view of its socio-economic conditions. It may be good for foreign countries but definitely not for Hindustan,"...
More »MP: Congress seeks CBI probe in illegal mining
-PTI The opposition Congress today demanded a CBI probe into the alleged illegal mining in the BJP-ruled madhya pradesh. The demand was made by leader of opposition Ajay Singh while releasing a book based on the issues raised by the Congress during the debate on the no-confidence motion tabled in the House in the last winter session. The book, `madhya pradesh Ki Janata Ka Avishwas, Darakti Sarkar' was released by Ajay in the...
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