-TheWire.in With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice. Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector – particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition – were low. While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds...
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Wealth of India's 10 richest enough to fund school, Higher Education of every child for 25 years: Study
-The New Indian Express Oxfam India further said that an additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders. NEW DELHI/ DAVOS: Indian billionaires saw their combined fortunes more than double during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their count shot up by 39 per cent to 142, while the wealth of the ten richest is enough to fund school and...
More »Centre brings all Higher Education institutions on ABC platform -Fareeha Iftikhar
-Hindustan Times The ABC framework is part of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and will allow Higher Education institutions to maintain a digital repository of credits earned by students; under ABC, students can choose to study one course in a year in one institution and switch to another one the next year The Centre has brought all recognised Higher Education institutions, irrespective of their accreditation or rankings, under the ambit of the...
More »UGC stops research projects due to lack of funds from central govt -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph According to the annual reports, funding for the scheme has been declining over the past five years as it has been declared 'closed' The University Grants Commission has stopped several research projects while some are lying dormant allegedly because of lack of funds from the Centre. The Major Research Project (MRP) of Higher Education regulator UGC is a case in point. According to the annual reports of the UGC, funding for the...
More »Over 150 Students, Teachers Join 50-Day Nationwide Campaign Against NEP, Call For Rollback -Abhishek Hari
-TheWire.in The campaign emphasised how the proposed NEP will result in budget cuts, elimination of reservations for the marginalised, fee hikes and a further rise of contractualisation and privatisation in Higher Education. New Delhi: More than 150 students, teachers and eminent public personalities on December 24 attended a nationwide 50-day campaign against the National Education Policy (NEP) at the Press Club of India (PCI) in the national capital. The PCI conference emphasised how...
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