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. …
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 …
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. …
The Union Cabinet is on Thursday likely to approve a revision of the Mid-day Meal Scheme and the Rs 5,000-crore plan to ensure Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at schools. The HRD Ministry has proposed to increase the cooking cost for its Mid-day Meal Scheme along with ensuring more calorie …
Three months after the ambitious Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was passed by the Parliament, the government remains undecided on when to make it effective. The law, passed with a thumping majority on August 4 by the Lok Sabha, has received the Presidential assent but is …
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the nodal grievance redressal authority for implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, will soon set up a special cell to monitor a child
With unprecedented investment planned in education, the government is looking at upgrading infrastructure at schools and colleges across the country along with lifting the quality of the learning they impart. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal wants to ensure that educational institutions are not just transformed into centres of academic excellence, they …
Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal (extreme right) inaugurating the Central University at Tiruvarur in the presence of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi THANJAVUR/TIRUVARUR: The future universities of India should be radically different and evolve into centres of excellence to meet global challenges, Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal said …
New Delhi: After the euphoria comes the real test. The cost of implementing the Right to Education Act over the next five years by the Centre and states works out to a whopping Rs 1.78 lakh crore. The new law will come into force from the next academic year and …
It has become an annual confluence of ideas and ideology, a high-powered forum where Union ministers, chief ministers and those in charge of key ministries in strategic states meet to debate the hot-button issues of the day as well as discover the true state of their states. The seventh India …
While the HRD ministry is yet to calculate the cost of providing free and compulsory education under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday said it would need about Rs 9,000 crore to achieve the objective. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday told the …
Village panchayats are set to play a key role in the soon-to-be launched National Mission for Female Literacy. With the view that a panchayat is best positioned to identify illiterates among women, register them as learners and also assign them educators, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has also set …
Parliament Passes Right To Education Bill For Children Between 6 & 14 PARLIAMENT on Tuesday gave its stamp of approval to a historic legislation providing for free and compulsory education for all children between 6 and 14. The bill will become law as soon as President Pratibha Patil gives her …
Years after he prepared the draft of Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal today introduced it in the Lok Sabha, setting the stage for education becoming the fundamental right of children aged 6 to 14 years. Once the Lok Sabha passes the …
