-PTI/ The Hindu The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the issue whether education is a service within the Consumer Protection Act. A bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and B.V. Nagarathna noted that a similar legal issue is pending adjudication in another case and tagged the matter along with it. "Having regard to the pendency of Civil Appeal No 3504 of 2020 (Manu Solanki and Others vs Vinayaka Mission University), the issue as...
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As schools re-open, address language & mathematics competences at different grades, adopting a socio-emotional development approach, suggests NCEE
-Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency dated 2nd November, 2021 * India’s 250 million children returning to school after 18 months of school closures and devastating learning loss * The NCEE warns that re-opening schools cannot be “return to school” as normal, and lack of a comprehensive approach will deepen the existing education inequality * Education recovery efforts require a multi-year, radically new approach, NCEE says NEW DELHI: The overwhelming majority...
More »Child rights protection commission sends notice to MP education dept over controversial Class 7 textbook chapter -Mohit Sharma
-IndiaToday.in NCPCR has issued a notice to Principal Secretary education Madhya Pradesh over a controversial chapter in a class 7 textbook. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has issued a notice to Principal Secretary education Madhya Pradesh over a chapter in class 7 books, for promoting communal disharmony. As per the notice, the commission has pointed out how an example in the textbook could very well not just traumatise the...
More »Southern states had a higher proportion of indebted farm households in 2019, shows NSO survey
The Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round), which was released recently, informs one about farm households' income in the crop year 2018-19 and indebtedness in 2019 (as on the date of survey), among other things. Prior to the recent report, Land and Livestock Holding Surveys (LHS) and Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households used to be...
More »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...
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