Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The Union Cabinet cleared a new National Education Policy (NEP) proposing sweeping changes in school and higher education. The NEP proposes sweeping changes including opening up of Indian higher education to foreign universities, dismantling of the UGC and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), introduction of a four-year …
The School Health Programme (SHP) under Ayushman Bharat is a joint collaborative Programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The programme targets both education and Health implementers and is envisaged to facilitate an integrated approach to health programming and more effective learning …
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Scheme is a tri-ministerial effort of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development. Ministry of Human Resource Development, under Samagra Shiksha, has targeted various interventions for girls which include opening of schools in the neighbourhood as defined by …
NEW DELHI: The universities across India are being asked to issue instructions against availability and sale of junk food in higher educational institutions. The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday in a letter to vice chancellors of all universities has asked to take measures to sensitize students on "ill effects …
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that his Ministry will work to make students environmentally sensitive by adopting sustainable practices and low carbon lifestyle. Observing that India played a “very important” role in the recent Paris Climate Change conference and arrival of a consensus for the agreement “would not …
Bareilly: Now there will be no more pizza, pasta and chips for school kids. The Central Board of Secondary Education's regional office for UP and Uttarakhand has banned fast food in tiffin boxes as well as canteens of schools under the board. The order, to be put into effect before …
HRD is one of the several ministries being asked to assist in the government’s Namami Gange programme. The Human Resource Development Ministry has been asked to help set up a national-level institution or a university that offers courses on applied river sciences in order to create expertise in cleaning and …
As many as 67 government schools are without toilets in Chamba district as per the data posted on the website of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MoHRD) recently. There are 999 government schools in the state, which are functioning without toilets. According to the information available on the …
The state government has asked all district education officers to submit reports on the status of toilets in schools, waking up to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat, Swachh Vidyalaya campaign. The department has decided to complete construction and repair of toilets by December 31, 2014. According to the …
As the nation gears up to participate in the massive ‘Swachh Bharat’ Mission to be launched from next month, the Centre on Thursday said it would spend Rs2 lakh crore for the next five years to make India India open defecation free by October 2019, coinciding with the 150th birth …
Report By SSA Unit Contradicts Figures Provided By CM Chief minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday put the number of government schools without toilet facilities at 196 but a report from the state unit of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan project says at least 219 government lower primary and upper primary schools in …
In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision on sanitation, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has decided to focus on creating an action plan for constructing toilets in all government schools to create an enabling environment for girls, with HRD minister Smriti Irani asking states to do so by …
BHUBANESWAR: Of the 58,000 government-run schools in the state, more than 8,000 don't have toilets for girls while in another 12,500, the toilets are lying defunct, according to a recent report of the Union ministry of human resources development (MHRD). Under the Narendra Modi government's ?Swach Vidyalaya, Swach Bharat' (Clean …
The progressive state like Maharashtra has as many as 1,226 government schools that still do not have toilet facility for girl students. And this basic facility for girls is lying non-functional in nearly 2,190 other government schools in the state. In Pune district, there are 35 government schools that lack …
A whopping 20,716 government schools in Odisha do not have proper toilets for girls. According to the status of school toilets posted by Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, following emphasis on sanitation laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech, 20,716 (35.46 per cent) of 58,412 …
Over 60 per cent of government schools in J&K; have no toilets, a Department of School Education and Literacy (DISE) survey 2013- 2014 conducted by the Union Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) survey revealed. According to the MHRD’s nation-wide survey, 18.7 per cent government schools in the state …
TRICHY: A total of 203 of the total 1,272 government schools in the district do not have basic toilet facilities according to a recent list released by the department of school education and literacy, ministry of human resource development (MHRD) on its official website about schools that are functioning without …
PANJIM: The government is likely to implement the restructured mid-day meal scheme from the New Year onwards with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar saying that the government is ready to pour in more money for mid-day meals in addition to what is being given now; but only if the children are …
Despite drawing flak for unprofessional deliverance of mid-day meals in government schools at several places in the state, Punjab has bagged the second position among states and union territories in the latest report on the scheme by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development. Punjab, with an aggregate of 76.81 …
In an affidavit submitted before the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, the Directorate of Education admitted that the current menu being provided under the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme in government schools in the capital was “not meeting the nutritional norms for primary as well as upper primary schoolchildren”. The report …
