-PTI Of the 62 patients who lost sight in an eye, 44 were operated in camps at Balod, 4 in Durg and 14 in Mahasamund Raipur: Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday admitted in the state assembly that as many as 62 people were left blind in one eye after they underwent procedures at the cataract operation camps held for last two years in the state. Of the 62 patients who lost sight in an...
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Learning outcome an important goal-Yamini Aiyar
-Live Mint Building an outcomes-focused delivery system is a particular challenge in India For once, I am optiMIStic about elementary education in India. Not because we have witnessed improvements in learning levels. In fact, the opposite is true. The latest Annual Status of Education Report highlights the deepening crisis of poor learning levels. In 2008, just under 50% of standard III students could read a standard I text. In 2012, this dropped...
More »Three held for rape of Bhandara sisters
-The Hindu Bhandara: Three suspects were taken into custody “for interrogation” by the police on Wednesday in connection with the rape and murder of three sisters near Murmadi village in Bhandara district. “We cannot say they are culprits or suspects. We have rounded them up only for interrogation,” Bhandara Superintendent of Police Dr. Arati Singh told The Hindu . The police on Tuesday declared that the three sisters, who went MISsing on...
More »New Housing Bill to check builders making false claims-Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu It will be sent to the Union Cabinet for approval soon Property developers will no longer be able to lure buyers with advertisements making tall claims and with blown-up pictures of fancy living spaces. In fact they will no longer be able to publicise their projects unless they have all the requisite perMISsions for construction, the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Bill-2011 has proposed. The Bill, which will be sent to...
More »Opposition points at bunglings in rural job scheme
-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: The Opposition on Wednesday accused the state government of perpetrating irregularities in the centrally-sponsored rural job guarantee scheme leading to embezzlement of an alleged 50% of the money earmarked for expenditure. Panchayati Raj minister Kalpataru Das rejected the allegations, saying Odisha was faring better than most states in implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme launched in 2005. He said so far 100.33 lakh families...
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