Communal violence had erupted in the area over a piece of disputed land Despite the initiation of an artificial “peace process” in the aftermath of September's horrific violence, the people in this nondescript town, which grabbed the headlines for the wrong reasons, seem to have lost confidence in the neutrality of the administration. Victims are yet to come to terms with the mishandling of the situation and, what they claim, the...
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RTE campaign to be launched in Mewat
-The Times of India A national-level right to education (RTE) campaign will be launched at Mewat on November 11 and the aim of the programme will be to educate people about their right to education. The campaign will be launched by Union Minister for Human Resource DevelopmentKapil Sibal. "It is the right of every child to get education up to eighth standard. To provide free and compulsory education to every child...
More »Food security channels by Indira Rajaraman
Poverty lines have been in the news again. This round started when a Planning Commission affidavit to the Supreme Court placing the poverty line at Rs 26 per capita per day (rural), Rs 32 (urban), raised a furore over the use of these to set a cap on the percentage of the population covered by the food security Bill. Since then, the pendulum has swung to the other extreme. The latest...
More »PM ‘magic wand’ for kids by Basant Kumar Mohanty
Come November 11, the students at India’s 13 lakh government schools will receive a message from the Prime Minister. “Education gave me a new life,” it will say. “Education is the magic wand that can help us meet any challenge.” The written piece will be read out in the assembly at each school on that day, observed as National Education Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of India’s first education minister, Maulana...
More »Work to change perception of minorities: Minorities panel
-The Hindu Government committed to protect minorities, says Gehlot The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has asked the Rajasthan Government to sensitise the police and the administration on the minorities and provide more representation to minority youth in the State police force. Talking in the context of the September 14 violence near Gopalgarh Masjid in Bharatpur district which resulted in ten deaths, the Commission advised the government to take steps to “improve the...
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