-NDTV After an NDTV story which showed a Class 6 textbook that says meat-eaters cheat, lie and commit sex crimes, the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) has said that School books used across the country are not monitored for content. "We only recommend books for Class IX onwards. Books are chosen by individual Schools. There is no monitoring of content of School books," CBSE chief Vineet Joshi told NDTV today. He was...
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Dance of death in Vidarbha -Pavan Dahat
-The Hindu Pokhari village in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district continues to reel under a spate of farmer suicides. From 1998 till now, nothing seems to have changed A phone call informing him about the twin suicides of his father and older brother changed 23-year-old Sunil Wagh’s life forever. On September 28, his father Shivaji, 55, and brother Baliram, 28, hung themselves, Shivaji at his farm and Baliram at his home in Pokhari village...
More »Age limit in RTE denies dropouts a chance to get back to School -Tanu Kulkarni
-The Hindu Children in the age group of 15 to 18 find it difficult to re-enrol into School Thirteen-year-old Afroze of Yeshwanthpur dropped out of School when he was eight and finds it difficult to leave his job and get back to School. Nevertheless, with some counselling and parental support, he can probably get back to School as he is less than 14. However, a survey conducted in July by Child Rights and...
More »Pneumonia No. 1 killer of children under 5: Report
-The Indian Express Pneumonia continues to be the leading cause of deaths among children under five years of age in India. According to the Pneumonia Progress Report 2012 brought out by the International Vaccine Access Centre and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in 2010, India recorded the highest under-five mortality from the dreaded disease. Though in the period 2000-10, the overall child mortality dipped from 9.6 million to 7.6...
More »Draft of RTE bill to discourage capitation fee cleared-Aakshi Magazine
-DNA The gap between policy and practice and how practice with its detailed knowledge of implementation can enrich policy was discussed at the 60th meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) held in New Delhi. The meeting, a first since the change in guard at the ministry of human resource development, was ‘enriching’ according to HRD minister Pallam Raju. Some proposed legislations that might become policies and a review of...
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