-Hindustan Times HT has analysed unit-level data from the latest Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in rural India (SAS) to answer some of these questions. Have tractors finally replaced bullock carts and private dairies the milk-animal in the Indian farmer’s house? Vigilante groups (“gau rakshaks”) claiming to be protecting cows have been making news (for the wrong reasons) in the past few years in India....
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Farmers in eastern India see little hope in protest -Priscilla Jebaraj and Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu They have not got many of the benefits that the new laws threaten to take away. As the movement against the agricultural reform laws builds towards its one year anniversary, it is clear that the bulk of farmers in eastern Indian States have not been as motivated to join the agitation as their counterparts in the northwest, as they have not even experienced many of the benefits that the laws...
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-ThePrint.in Recipient of the 2021 Yida Prize for Education Development, Dr Rukmini Banerji said the education sector in India still has a long way to go. New Delhi: The policy framework for the new National Education Policy (NEP) may be in place, but collaboration among various government departments is the only way forward, said Dr Rukmini Banerji, CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation. In an interview with ThePrint, Banerji, who was the recipient...
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-The New Indian Express The UNESCO report states that in Odisha, all recruitment so far have been indirect, conducted via promotions and regularisation of the existing contractual teachers. BHUBANESWAR: AS many as 3,197 schools across Odisha - both government and private - are functioning with just one teacher. Worse, 88 per cent (pc) of these schools are located in rural Odisha. This has been revealed by UNESCO in its ‘No Teacher, No...
More »TEQIP III: Only Bihar, Uttarakhand continue with highly qualified teachers in engineering colleges -Sumi Sukanya Dutta
-The New Indian Express Nearly 1,500 technical education teachers across 18 states had joined on a temporary basis in technical institutions in backward or “aspirational” districts in 2018. NEW DELHI: Despite intervention by the Union education ministry, only two states so far -- Bihar and Uttarakhand -- have agreed to absorb pass-outs from the Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology that were recruited in engineering institutes in rural and...
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