-The Business Standard Life Insurance Council says companies need to augment their agency force with 15-20% growth every year in number of agents The life insurance industry has seen a net reduction of 7-8 lakh agents in the last four years, said V Manickam, secretary general of Life Insurance Council. This, said Manickam, is due to the fact that there are over 35 lakh agents who have been terminated from service as against...
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‘No detention doesn’t mean no exams’ -Akshaya Mukul
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: No-detention provision in the Right to Education (RTE) Act is being touted as a big barrier towards quality education but a comprehensive report by the HRD ministry has revealed that 25 states already had no-detention policy even before the historical law came into force in 2009. It has also been revealed through analysis of District Information of System of Education data that learning ability in states...
More »School for the blind achieves 100% results this year too -V Devanathan
-The Times of India MADURAI: While conventional schools strive hard to produce 100% pass in state board Examination, a special school for visually impaired children in Sundararajanpatti has produced centum results quite convincingly. This is not first time it has achieved this feat. It has been doing so for the last 18 years. In the SSLC Examination results announced on Friday, all the 23 visually impaired students who appeared for the Examination...
More »Centre firm on ‘barefoot doctors’-GS Mudur
-The Telegraph The Union health ministry has signalled its intentions to go ahead with plans to introduce a cadre of rural health care providers through a new BSc course, ignoring objections from a parliamentary panel. The ministry told Delhi High Court this week that it had sent a draft cabinet note on the three-and-a-half-year course in community health to the Prime Minister's Office for comments. This is standard procedure before the matter...
More »Right To Education is an absolutely foolish policy: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar
-PTI Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday called the Right to Education (RTE) Act as Union Minister Kapil Sibal's "absolutely foolish policy". "RTE Act is Kapil Sibal's absolutely foolish policy. There are certain parameters in the policy which are wrong," Mr Parrikar told reporters while objecting to the RTE Act's no-detention clause. "The idea of no-detention is good, but there should be good parameters to implement it. After RTE, studying has...
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