-The Telegraph APCR reproduced an account that sheds more on the ugly backdrop to the police firing and atrocity that followed A delegation of rights defenders who visited Assam’s Darrang district, where a day labourer and a child were killed in a land reclamation drive in a minority-dominated settlement last month, has reconstructed a grim picture of the government and private groups creating a situation that culminated in the police firing. The fact-finding...
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TEQIP III: Only Bihar, Uttarakhand continue with highly qualified Teachers in engineering colleges -Sumi Sukanya Dutta
-The New Indian Express Nearly 1,500 technical education Teachers across 18 states had joined on a temporary basis in technical institutions in backward or “aspirational” districts in 2018. NEW DELHI: Despite intervention by the Union education ministry, only two states so far -- Bihar and Uttarakhand -- have agreed to absorb pass-outs from the Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology that were recruited in engineering institutes in rural and...
More »School principal makes Dalit students sit in separate queues during mid-day meal in UP, suspended -Namita Bajpai
-The New Indian Express A detailed probe is underway after the FIR was registered against Soni under relevant sections of the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act. LUCKNOW: The principal of a primary school in Vanpurwa Gaderi gram panchayat of Amethi district of UP made students belonging to the Scheduled Castes sit in different queues during the mid-day meals on the school premises. An FIR has been registered and the school principal has been suspended. A...
More »Education in India Has Plunged into a Crisis. Just Reopening Schools Isn't Enough. -Mitali Mukherjee
-TheWire.in A recent survey in 16 states and union territories suggests has revealed that there has been a catastrophic slide in literacy among children from poor and marginalised sections. However, there seems to be no plan to help them. October is the month for new beginnings, not least for scores of children who have been unable to attend school in its physical form for the last year and a half. The pandemic...
More »Kerala Teacher pitches for education on Constitution
-Hindustan Times Last year, Binu PG had even written a letter to Kerala governor Arif Mohammad Khan regarding Consititution clubs, who in turn, lauded his initiative and recommended the letter to President Ram Nath Kovind. A decision on the letter is still pending. Thiruvananthapuram: A Kottayam Teacher’s movement to set up clubs Teaching articles from the Constitution of India in schools to create awareness among the youth about their rights and duties...
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