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 …
After the Educational Development Index (EDI) showed Delhi had slipped from its fourth rank to the eighth place in elementary education, the state is considering taking up the matter with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and National University of Educational Planning and Administration, officials said. According to the report …
One Indian woman's enduring commitment to improving the living standards of the rural communities of Kutch, a remote and poor region in India;s far north-west, has fundamentally transformed the lives of thousands of women. By reviving the traditional craft of embroidery, 2006 Rolex Laureate Chanda Shroff has given these women …
Planning is the most essential part of successful and result-oriented implementation of any scheme or plan. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has a broad horizon and high promises; in this vision the government is investing a majority of its finances in this particular scheme. Considering the high expectations …
Given the importance of a credible monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) of NREGS for qualitative improvements, timely redressal of grievances and mid course corrections in implementation, a third party monitoring and evaluation team was set up in June 2009 by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of Uttar Pradesh. The government …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 has been a landmark legislation in the Indian history of social security legislation post independence. This Act has been devised as a public works programme with a rights-based approach of providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment as income security to rural …
NREGS has a strong rights-based perspective. The facilitation of the basic right of a decent job which requires complementary social supports such as insurance, gender equity, child care, financial literacy, awareness building, etc., is critical to it. The setting up of social supports and enhancing the efficiency of delivery, all …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been devised as a public works programme to address the issue of a rights-based approach to development; provide income security to the rural households through guaranteed wage employment; reduce/check distress migration from rural to urban areas; and create durable community assets (in …
Include private schools in SSA, other schemes While the human resources development ministry is currently focused on weeding out poor-quality private education providers in the higher education space, a very different picture obtains as far as primary and secondary education is concerned. At a time when the government is almost …
Environment education will be a part of the school curriculum in Uttar Pradesh from the next academic session. State environment principal secretary Alok Ranjan said the government has already taken the first step in that direction by taking a decision to constitute a State Climate Change Board that would chart …
New Delhi: The notification on the Right to Education is likely to be issued soon as most of preparatory work that has delayed it is nearly over. Even the Planning Commission has promised a big outlay for RTE that would kickstart the historic legislation. The HRD ministry had demanded Rs …
NARAYAN BARETH JAIPUR There is not a single house in the village which has not sent its girls to study in schools Though girls are often asked to stay home instead of enrolling in school, a village called Dungero Ki Tala in the border district of Barmer has shown the …
With the Budget 2010-11 preparations in full swing, there is a growing realisation within the Manmohan Singh government that its flagship programmes, including the much-touted Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) are performing much below par with the ministries concerned in some cases not …
The notification of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 depends on how soon an acceptable formula for sharing the financial burden between the centre and states is worked out and the model rules are drafted. The committee formulating the model rules could learn from states …
THE group of ministers headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has cleared the proposed legislation to make accreditation mandatory for institutes and to set up education tribunals to adjudicate on all education-related disputes. A third bill to check malpractice in education institutes was not taken up because defence minsiter A …
Punjab, HP miss bus in phase 1; Haryana gets lone project Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have failed to make it to the first list of 19 states chosen by the government to start adult literacy classes under the all-new Sakshar Bharat Mission, which the Prime Minister launched in September last. …
Losses by the long ruling Left Front in a series of local and national elections since 2008 cannot be explained without an understanding of the nature of
