-The Hindu However, government is keen on starting with high school and PU classes Bengaluru: The expert committee established by the Department of Primary and Secondary Education to look into the reopening of schools wants all pre-primary and lower primary classes opened from August 2. Committee members have suggested that all classes on campus should resume at the earliest. However, a source in the committee said that if the government is keen...
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Population populism: UP draft population bill will impact the vulnerable, especially women -Poonam Muttreja
-Down to Earth The focus must be on safeguarding women and girls’ reproductive health. Smaller families can be achieved by ensuring gender equality, empowering women The law proposed by the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission on July 7, 2021 on two-child policy compels couples to limit their families through a series of incentives and disincentives. There is no evidence, however, that coercive policies can truly reduce fertility. Two-child policies are known to disproportionately impact...
More »As the pandemic makes digital teaching the norm, these initiatives are bringing school to rural children -Mala Kumar
-The Hindu As children in rural India, with little access to gadgets and networks, are pushed into deeper marginalisation, a look at some initiatives that try to change this Eleven-year-old Chaithanya has not been to school in over a year. On a Sunday morning, she is glued to the television in her house in rural Ravugodlu, Karnataka, watching an English lesson. With schools closed, many children like Chaithanya are making use of...
More »The neoliberal reforms of 1991 didn’t work as claimed -Jayati Ghosh
-Macroscan.com/ Livemint.com There is a common trope, fed especially to generations born after 1991, that economic progress and modernization in India really occurred only after ‘liberalizing’ economic reforms were introduced three decades ago. This is a travesty of the truth. Certainly, conditions for most Indians have improved since that watershed year. Per capita income went up more rapidly than before, life expectancy went up, infant and maternal mortality decreased, income poverty...
More »Forced eviction of Khori Gaon residents amidst the pandemic is human rights violation, allege civil rights activists
-Press release by National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) dated 22 July, 2021 A report has been prepared by National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) on the basis of a public hearing on the forced evictions of Khori Gaon residents in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic and monsoon. Held on July 17, 2021, the public hearing was organised by the Concerned Citizens for Khori Gaon and National Alliance of People’s Movements...
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