-The Hindu World’s largest teacher training programme, says HRD Ministry New Delhi: More than 42 lakh teachers and principals of primary and elementary-age government schools across the country will undergo a five-day training programme over the next few months to learn innovative teaching methods, the use of art and Technology in the classroom and basic counselling techniques. On Wednesday, the Human Resource Development Ministry kicked off the National Initiative for School Heads' and...
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Why most drop-outs from IITs, IIMs are from reserved category? -Shyna Kalra
-The Indian Express In terms of IITs, the maximum dropouts are seen in IIT-Delhi, while at IIMs, most dropouts took place at IIM Indore followed by IIM Kashipur. At IIM-Kashipur, all the dropouts in the past two years were reserved-category students. Out of 2,461 students who dropped out from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the last two years, 371 students were from the Scheduled Caste (SC), 199 from the Scheduled...
More »Manisha Verma, principal secretary, tribal development department, Maharashtra interviewed by Sugandha Indulkar (The Times of India)
-The Times of India Manisha Verma, principal secretary, tribal development department, Maharashtra talks to Sugandha Indulkar about The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 and related issues, with today being World Tribal Day. * What’s the precise positioning of the tribal welfare departments at the Centre and states on FRA? This is a seminal legislation. The preamble to the Act itself states that it aims...
More »2,400 students dropped out of IITs in 2 years, nearly half were SC, ST, OBC -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in Most of the dropouts occurred in the older IITs — Delhi tops the list, followed by Kharagpur, Bombay, Kanpur and Madras. New Delhi: Over 2,400 students have dropped out from the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the last two years, with over half of them belonging to the general category. These dropouts are both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. According to data shared by the Ministry of Human Resource...
More »A missed opportunity for game-changing reforms in agriculture -Sukhpal Singh
-The Hindu Business Line There are no schemes for much of agriculture, and small ruminants have been ignored. The Economic Survey had a full chapter on agriculture and food management issues. It had a separate section on small ruminants for the first time, and also showed that only one of the ongoing schemes for the livestock sector attends to their concerns. The Budget provides for creating a fund for upgrading of traditional industries...
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