-The Hindu For this 14-year-old, her life as she knew it has come to an end: she dropped out of School, she cannot interact with any of her friends or even walk freely in her neighbourhood but she still nurtures the dream of becoming a police officer when she grows up. Her resolve to join the force is despite the kind of treatment meted out to her by the Delhi Police...
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Surrogacy and homophobia: India bans gay parents -Sandip Roy
-FirstPost.com Aditya Advani always knew that he wanted to have children. He also knew he was gay. Twenty years ago gay marriage was just a fantasy. Few gay couples had children – whether their own or adopted – even in the US where Advani had emigrated. But that did not deter him from bringing up the subject with potential boyfriends such as Michael Tarr, the man who is now his partner. “The...
More »'Kids in rural India learn more from tuitions than Schools'
-PTI Reflecting the dwindling standard of education across Schools in rural India, a report has claimed that students required additional help of tuitions to achieve better learning outcomes. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), based on a survey covering about six lakh children in 567 districts of rural India, has said tuition-going students were much more clear with their arithmetic concepts. "The influence of additional inputs in the form of tuition on...
More »Tribals plan to shun Sonia's event due to poor facilities -Sandhya Nair
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Around 25,000 tribal students have been roped in to welcome Congress presidentSonia Gandhi, who will launch a rural health project for children in Palghar on February 6. But parents of students from 13 villages in the taluka have decided to boycott the function and keep their children away to protest against the lack of basic amenities like roads in their localities. Sonia will launch a National Rural...
More »UP tops the chart of School dropouts -Isha Jain
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Right to free and compulsory education (RTE) has failed to ensure cent-percent enrolment of children in Schools In UP. Of the 28 states, UP has the unique distinction of having the maximum out of School children aged between 6-14 years, including dropouts as well as children who have never attended School. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) findings, published by NGO Pratham, brings to light that...
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