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 …
To understand people’s perceptions about the functioning of their representatives in the legislature, DAKSH, a civil society organisation in Karnataka, conducted a survey in October and November 2009 across 218 legislative assembly constituencies. The results from the survey reflect a stark gap between people’s expectations and their perceptions of the …
As long as the present generation of the powerful, whether the rulers in Washington or in New Delhi, persists with the practice of depending on its armed infrastructure to lord over the political space and establish hegemony over civil society, and fails to learn that such a policy invariably escalates …
These rules may be called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme, State Employment Guarantee Fund Rules of Gujarat, 2010. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Nali Kali programme has been successfully implemented in the district, said Public Education Department Deputy Director Prahalad Gowda. He was speaking at the interaction programme organised for the district level resource persons, here recently. The learning levels of the children in all the 1,722 nalikali schools in the district is …
The Indian Constitution was adopted on November 26, 1949, and came into force on January 26, 1950. It is universally believed that our Constitution is an organic living institution. It is flexible yet resilient, designed to meet the needs and requirements of a fast changing and rapidly developing society. The …
Much of the discussion on the Right to Education Act, 2009 has ignored the point that the passage of such a law actually missed an excellent opportunity to address the systematic and fundamental problems of school education in India.
Social media are changing the world in which we work, socialise and govern, and in many different ways. From Twitter to eBay, Facebook to YouTube, new tools are emerging every year that place the connecting power of the internet in the hands of every one of us. Marketing and sales …
HRD ministry and states can be happy as 13th Finance Commission has been the most generous for elementary education, allocating Rs 24,068 crore for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to all the states for the next five years. It has also fully accepted the demand for grants made by the HRD ministry. …
The financial year gone by saw the strengthening of several initiatives to help cushion the impact of global slowdown on the more vulnerable population. The Economic Survey said the gap between the health and education indices of India and those in the developed world, and even with those in many …
The State government is understood to have expressed to the Centre its reservations about the move to rope in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the State. Official sources told The Hindu here that the State government had raised objections on …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to provide pre-school kits to children in the anganwadi centres to attract them to schools. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting presided over by Women and Child Development Minister Pramila Mallik at the Secretariat here today. Children in the age …
From paved roads that carry crops to market to modern grain silos that reduce postharvest losses, infrastructure is critical to achieving food security. But nothing is currently having a more profound effect on farmers in the developing world than telecommunications networks. In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, for instance, …
CHANDIGARH: The Union Government has sanctioned Rs. 109.53 crore under Saakshar Bharat Mission-2012 to improve the literacy rate in Haryana, said State Education and Health Minister Geeta Bhukkal on Tuesday. She said 10 districts with 50 per cent adult female literacy or below would be covered initially. The districts are …
Number To Cost Rs 200 Per Person Akshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi: HRD ministry has decided to take the help of Unique Identity number project to carry out educational reforms. Foremost among its goal is to use UID to bring the over 80 lakh
Pune With an aim to generate employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for rural students, a residential diploma in basic rural technology was recently launched by city-based voluntary organisation Astitva Pratishthan. The one-year course is meant for students who have appeared for the class X examinations.
