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 "Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)-2009" has revealed that the standard of school education was not up to the mark in rural India and claimed that 50 per cent of children in these areas were at least three-grade level behind where they need to be. The report, prepared by …
WITH 96% children of rural India in the age group 6-14 now enrolled in schools, the government appears to have beaten the odds in the numbers game. However, providing quality education to them remains dismal. The Annual Status of Education Report 2009 brought out by a network of civil society …
Mahim Pratap Singh Chhatarpur/Bhopal: While Bundelkhand is usually referred to as a grossly under-developed region of Madhya Pradesh, a village in Chhattarpur district might just qualify as
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS SECOND generation victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are in town to urge Anna University to return the Rs 5 lakh sponsorship obtained from Dow Chemicals, the company that presently owns the Union Carbide factory that caused the gas disaster in 1984. "Accepting Dow's sponsorship will …
The Maoists have been at the helm of the movement in Lalgarh right from its inception. Even as they organised the resistance to state repression, they put in place, at a rudimentary level, an alternative programme of development based on the people
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 will be enforced in April/May after the Rules were put in place. Solicitor General Gopal …
The annual Child Census undertaken by the Department of Public Instruction began here on Tuesday. While the census which began on Wednesday will be conducted in rural areas till Friday, it will be conducted in Kolar city and the taluk headquarters up to Saturday, according to department officials. Changes have …
Over 4 Months After Parliament Cleared It, Historic Act Yet To Be Notified New Delhi: The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act was billed to be a giant leap towards universalization of education in India. However, it has acquired the dubious distinction of being the only fundamental right that …
Effective implementation of Right to Education Act is possible only with an integrated child survey that could create a data base with comprehensive details, said legislator K P Bache Gowda. Zilla Panchayat president Vinuta Srinivas inaugurating district-level child census in Kuppahalli village of Chikkaballapur taluk on Tuesday. Legislator K P …
The progress made so far in some key projects of the government as well as its flagship schemes like Bharat Nirman and Nrega came in for scrutiny at a meeting in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) chaired by T.K.A. Nair, principal secretary to the PM on Tuesday. At the meeting, …
Jogeswar Teron of Garbhanga is eight years old and studies in class II. In his short existence spent mostly in helping his parents in Jhum cultivation, he could rarely recall any memorable event that had been exciting enough to make him feel on cloud nine. But Sunday was an exception …
The government of India has shifted from cash payment of wages under the renamed Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Scheme to settlement through bank accounts. This has been done in order to prevent defrauding of workers and to give them greater control over their wages. Has this been achieved after the …
In a comprehensive paper, covering all aspects of e-governance, especially the scope, advantages, risks and so on, the Author sounds a note of caution against the delays in implementing the relevant projects causing time and cost overruns. In his view, while there is a rosy outlook, complete coverage of the …
Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftershock of the global economic downturn. The 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose life chances will have been irreparably damaged by a failure to …
On 19 December, the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009 was passed in the State Assembly. It is now mandatory for all registered voters in Gujarat to vote in the elections of all local bodies (municipal corporations, municipalities and panchayats) of the state. The new amendment empowers the election …
In this article the author elaborates why information highway is to be treated as an infrastructure, just as roads, railways, ports, electricity etc. When transmission of information takes place along numerous media, this paper deals in particular with two modes of information highway: the internet and the mobile telephony (through …
