-Down to Earth UN agencies urged governments to prioritise School reopening More than 39 billion in-School meals were missed globally during the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic due to School closures, according to a new UNICEF report. Since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly 370 million children have not been receiving a School meal in 150 countries, said the report by UNICEF Office of Research and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)...
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School education takes biggest hit: Govt cuts proposed education spending by Rs 6,000 cr -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express No announcements on recovering learning loss, support for children at risk of not returning to School. The government’s proposed spending on education next year has been cut by Rs 6,000 crore at a time when the Covid-19-induced disruption is expected to have exacerbated students’ learning loss and School dropout rates. The total education budget was slashed by 6 per cent from Rs 99,311 crore in 2020-21 to Rs 93,224 crore...
More »The taming of RTI -Vinita Deshmukh
-The Hindu A look at how the RTI Act has been systematicallyassaulted by successive governments to blunt its efficacy and make governance less transparent For 24 years, until the enactment of the Right to Information Act (RTI) in 2005, Shivaji Raut was an ordinary teacher, the vice-principal of Anant English Medium School in Satara district in western Maharashtra. But when he discovered the power of RTI in demanding accountability and transparency from...
More »Children from economically weaker backgrounds have fallen behind as classes shifted to the digital mode -Wilima Wadhwa
-The Indian Express Although there has been a lot of public discussion on digital modes of education for School children, online and video classes catered largely to urban or educated elite populations whose children went to private Schools. In India, School closures post the spread of the pandemic started as early as March 2020. As months went by, concerns increased: Would learning levels drop, existing inequalities deepen? The Annual Status of Education...
More »Budget 2021 Is a Chance to Undo the COVID-Induced Inequality That Has Surged Across India -Nikhil Dey
-TheWire.in Ideally, the government should increase the work entitlement for MGNREGA to at least 150 days, double the budget and put in place an urban employment guarantee act. Let’s start with those who did well over the last 10 months. The Sensex index crossed the 50,000 benchmark for the first time on January 21, 2021, with a whopping 70% increase since April 2020. The Oxfam inequality report, just released, gives an idea of...
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