-The Times of India New Delhi: Zainab, Sana, Sumaila, Saima, Saina and Alisha, if not attending tuition classes, while away the day in the narrow bylanes of Hazrat Khwaja Peer Dard Colony, a stone's throw from their school, Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya on Turkman Road in Delhi. The children may be happy that they don't have to go to school, but their parents worry that the kids are missing out on nutritious...

-Hindustan Times Indore: The Madhya Pradesh government is trying to privatise education in state-run schools, said contractual Teachers on Sunday. Contractual Teachers participating in Shiksha Kranti Yatra alleged that the state government was trying to hand over the running of government schools to private institutes and blaming them for the falling standards of education. More than 500 contractual Teachers from different districts of the state, who are undertaking the march to highlight their...

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The ongoing strike by municipal workers in Delhi has deprived a majority of over 12 lakh poor students of their daily nutrition in the form of mid-day meals. Officials said since Teachers were either not reporting to work or not teaching, the attendance in 1,860 municipal schools had gone down and affected the distribution of mid-day meals. The mid-day meal scheme is a government programme designed to improve the...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Only seven out of every 100 hundred Teachers in colleges and universities across the country were from the Scheduled Castes last year. Those from the Scheduled Tribes were even worse off, numbering only 2 per cent. The grim statistics - included in a government report released last month -leap to relevance against the backdrop of the suicide of Rohit Vemula, the research scholar in the University of Hyderabad. Suggestions...

-The Indian Express Haryana panchayat poll outcome does not reflect the state’s social composition The panchayat elections in Haryana have yielded results drastically different from previous elections. This is because a large number of persons were barred from contesting these elections due to educational and other disqualifications introduced through amendments by the Haryana assembly in September last year. In the widely criticised Rajbala and others vs State of Haryana judgment, the Supreme...