-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested a series of structural reforms in education, ranging from schools being mandated to display grade-wise learning goals for each class for which Niti Ayog has been entrusted to recommend overhauling of University Grants Commission and All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). School students will be asked to evaluate their Teachers and a university may be started for teacher training....
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Freedom in peril -R Ramakumar
-Frontline The government’s passage of the Aadhaar Bill in complete disregard of even basic parliamentary procedures and in subversion of an ongoing judicial process puts at risk a number of constitutional rights and liberties of citizens. The benefits cited are just ploys to realise a neoliberal dream. “Congressmen are dancing as if [Aadhaar] was a herb for all cures. With the Supreme Court pulling up the Centre, people are now seeking...
More »A lesson in hidden agendas -Rohit Dhankar
-The Hindu The assault on the Right to Education Act and government schools is motivated. It is definitely not in the interest of India’s children, especially those from less privileged households The public education system (PES) has for long been under fire. It is being painted as non-functioning, wasteful and un-improvable. The Right to Education Act (RTE) was designed to improve this system. Therefore, it is natural that the RTE will also...
More »Govt. to focus on Swachh Bharat on second anniversary -Somesh Jha
-The Hindu It has drafted a detailed plan for 2016-17 with different themes. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government will mark its second anniversary with all the Ministries taking mass pledges on the Swachh Bharat portal on May 26 this year. In a bid to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project Swachh Bharat Mission a mass movement, the government has drafted a detailed plan for every day of 2016-17 with different themes...
More »Ballia village tense as 150 students fall ill after consuming MDM -Rajeev Dikshit
-The Times of India VARANASI: About 150 students of Bahadurpur primary school of Haldi area in Ballia district fell ill after consuming mid-day meal (MDM) on Saturday afternoon. Angered over the incident villagers attacked the school. Following initial scuffle with principal and Teachers they locked themselves inside the rooms of school to save themselves from the angry mob of locals. All students were rushed to the district hospital where their condition started...
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