Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The Saakshar Bharat Mission aims at 80% adult literacy and is to be implemented by gram panchayats. However, not only are these local bodies already heavily burdened with a multitude of roles and responsibilities, it is also a fallacy to presume that their members are adult literacy experts. While adult …
The Saakshar Bharat Mission aims at 80% adult literacy and is to be implemented by gram panchayats. However, not only are these local bodies already heavily burdened with a multitude of roles and responsibilities, it is also a fallacy to presume that their members are adult literacy experts. While adult …
The Centre has formulated a National Litigation Policy to reduce the cases pending in various courts in India under the National Legal Mission to reduce average pendency time from 15 years to 3 years. This was announced by Dr.M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice while announcing the National Litigation …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan is getting ready for devolution of powers to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to be the first State in the whole of North India to go for such a makeover. As many as five departments are working at a break neck speed to carry out the process, including …
New Delhi: Britain, which funds barely 2% of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan through its donor agency Department For International Development (DFID), has launched an investigation into diversion of funds and allegations of corruption in the flagship programme. Expressing shock, Andrew Mitchell, secretary of state for international development, said an inquiry was …
NCPCR project to educate slum kids scrapped midway, volunteers left in the lurch In January, when Chandni addressed a gathering in slums of Jenhangirpuri, an attentive crowd clung to every word she said.
Anubhuti Vishnoi The Right to Education, in effect since April 1, is set to cost the Centre a staggering 2,31,000 crore over the next five years according to fresh estimates. Previous estimates drawn up by National University of Education Planning & Administration (NUEPA)
The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed to associate talented persons of all sections of society with 'School Chale Hum' campaign. He said that by associating talented persons from the fields of sports, film, stage, social service, education, and literature-culture, this campaign will get wide acceptance. Chief Minister …
Two years behind schedule, the common service centre (CSC) project is floundering. There are few success stories and no one tells you where Rs 5,742 crore of public funds are going.
JORHAT, May 16: Though Parliament makes education one of the fundamental rights, there are many who fail to realize significance of education. Lakhs of people are there in the State who, due to reasons like poverty or child labour, fail to appreciate the greater needs of primary education for their …
R Chandrasekhar, IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, is credited with establishing India's first department of information technology (DIT) in his home state. The architect of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), he is also regarded as the father of e-governance in India and has won the prime minister's award for …
Reversing wrongs could be a better idea than throwing rights at people whose strength is used up entirely in the daily struggle against exclusion. Running to courts to enforce their rights is not even on the periphery of their consciousnes
Governance of the state of Sikkim is one of the key issues that we take pride in for being very, very good. It goes down to the level of the panchayats. In three districts we have panchayati raj in full flow. Interestingly, in north Sikkim, we have the Zumsa system …
The centre and states usually have a very stormy relationship. I would want to draw attention to the different aspects of this relationship. We live in a federal structure of government with three levels; centre, state and the panchayati raj institutions.
A scathing CAG audit report on Kerala's Akshaya, the country's premier e-gov initiative, shows why billions being spent on e-governance would be wasted if the bureaucracy does not learn quickly.
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa universities have been asked to fan out to remote pockets and adopt more number of tribal villages where campaigns against high dropout could be launched under the Project Gyanlok. At the Vice-Chancellors (VC) Conference here, Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare called for intensified activities by the universities to take …
