-Scroll.in The ASHA unions in Bihar are demanding government employee status and a minimum wage. Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHA workers in Bihar went on an indefinite strike from December 1 with a 12-point charter of demands. Bihar has 93,687 ASHA workers – the second highest contingent of the one million ASHA workers in India. They are the key link between the healthcare system and rural populations and have to perform...
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Three schools from Delhi have made it to the nationwide list of top 12 government schools -Janane Venkatraman
-The Hindu One student is making a drone, another a dancing robot. Scenes from two government schools in Delhi The walls of the entryway of the school are covered with bright charts that talk about everything from sustainable development and ‘Swachh Bharat’ to ‘happiness goals’ and exam schedules. The cream-coloured floor gleams and the sun peeps out from the clouds behind the rows of students — dupattas pinned, shirts tucked in, not...
More »HRD ministry seeks EWS data for entry level classes at private schools
-Hindustan Times/ PTI Admission for entry level classes for the academic session 2019-2020 will begin in the next two months. New Delhi: The human resource development (HRD) ministry has sought data on the number of vacant seats that exists for children hailing from economically weaker section/disadvantaged group (EWS/DG) in entry level classes such as Kindergarten, nursery and class 1 at private schools across the country. “I have asked states to provide data on...
More »Many private schools in Delhi reject EWS entries even as 13,000 seats remain vacant -Fareeha Iftikhar
-Hindustan Times According to records of Delhi’s Directorate of Education (DoE), of the 48,122 seats reserved under the so-called economically weaker section or EWS category in private schools at the entry level, only 35,500 seats have been filled. New Delhi: Almost 13,000 nursery seats reserved for children from economically disadvantaged households in private schools in the 2018-19 academic session remain unfilled in the city with less than two months remaining for the...
More »What does the recent SC judgment on Aadhaar mean for people in Nandurbar? -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-The Indian Express Much before the Supreme Court started hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar and much before the unique identity number roiled a nation over concerns of privacy, Nandurbar had made peace with the 12-digit identification number. Since the launch of the unique ID in this Maharashtra district, the 12-digit identity has been inextricably tied to people’s lives — from a mother without Aadhaar who was...
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