-Inclusive Media for Change The pandemic induced School closures have taken a huge toll on the right to education and learning levels of the School children coming from underprivileged sections. A survey covering 1,362 School children (enrolled in Classes 1-8) from 1,362 households, which was carried out in 15 states/ UTs in the month of August 2021 (first round), reveals the catastrophic consequences of prolonged School closure in the last one...
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‘Catastrophic consequences’: Only 8% of rural children regularly attended online class during lockdown -Diksha Munjal
-Newslaundry.com A new survey titled Locked Out notes that 37 percent of rural children are ‘not studying at all’. In the Kumtu tribal hamlet of Jharkhand, eight-year-old Suman, who would now be in Class 3, has not gone to School in nearly two years, owing to the coronavirus-induced lockdown in the country, imposed in March last year. Before the lockdown, when the local government School in her village would open sporadically, Suman...
More »Survey details ‘catastrophic’ impact of School closures across India
-The Hindu 37% of rural children have dropped out, says report of study on 15 States The prolonged closure of primary and upper primary Schools during the pandemic months has led to “catastrophic consequences” for School students, particularly in rural India, says an emergency report. Based on the School Children’s Online and Offline Learning (School) survey conducted by researchers, who worked in coordination with eminent economist Jean Dreze, the ‘Emergency Report on School...
More »45 Children Die In UP's Firozabad In 10 Days, Dengue Suspected, Probe On -Kamal Khan
-NDTV.com With 186 people in hospital and a high number of affected children, the Firozabad administration has ordered closure of Schools for Classes 1-8. Firozabad: The death of 53 people, including 45 children, over the past 10 days in a suspected dengue outbreak in Firozabad has prompted the Uttar Pradesh government to set up an inquiry. At the Firozabad medical college, the scenes are horrifying: rows of children suffering from fever and their...
More »Sedition for CAA School Play: Karnataka HC Says Police Violated JJ Act, Child Rights
-TheWire.in "Why children are subjected to all this? This has to be corrected, this can't go on like this," the court said. New Delhi: The Karnataka high court on Monday, August 17, observed that the presence of policemen in uniform, carrying firearms, while interrogating children in connection with a sedition case for an anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) theatre play staged at Shaheen Education Society in Bidar last year is in violation of...
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