-Live Mint HRD minister says government will push for the fulfilment of RTE's conditions even after deadline ends A week before the implementation deadline for its flagship Right to Education (RTE) Act expires, the government on Friday accepted that it had failed to achieve many of the targets of what it envisaged as a landmark measure. At least 13 states have written to the human resource development (HRD) ministry for an extension owing...
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Aakash tablet project comes a cropper-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu But there are other devices, says HRD Minister Pallam Raju India's dream of providing a laptop to every student is headed for a crash as the Canada-based Datawind has failed to supply the required number of Aakash tablets - low-cost computing devices. Showcased by India as the world's cheapest computing device, Aakash-2 was to be supplied to 22 million students and faculty at 50 per cent subsidised cost. The Human Resource...
More »Government close to giving up on Aakash project- Prashant K Nanda and Surabhi Agarwal
-Live Mint HRD minister Pallam Raju says focus should be on helping students access content, not on hardware The government seems to have virtually given up onAakash, the $35 tablet computer that was once billed as India's low-cost solution for bridging the divide between digital haves and have-nots. "Let's not get obsessed with hardware," human resource development (HRD) minister M.M. Pallam Raju said on Friday. "The overall (issue) is how we enable students....
More »17 per cent of urban India lives in slums: Census -Rukmini Shrinivasan
-The Times of India Nearly one in every six urban Indian residents lives in a slum, newly released Census data shows. The new numbers are significantly lower than the slum growth that had been projected for India. "Our own projections were that the all-India slum population would be 27.5% by 2011, so the new data comes as a pleasant surprise," Arun Kumar MISra, secretary in the ministry of housing and urban poverty...
More »Urban slums data reinforces India’s consumption story-Neha Sethi
-Live Mint Indians who live in slums are not very different from those who live elsewhere, in terms of ownership of assets Indians who live in slums are not very different from those who live elsewhere, in terms of their ownership of assets, including consumer products and houses, although they may not have the same access to water and sanitation. The finding, reflected in Census 2011 data that was released on Thursday, reinforces...
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