Some top of the list wishes to make life better of school going children somehow don’t get into policies and action plans. For instance, reducing the weight of school bag is one thing every parent and child loving person would like to see, but it has not happened and is in itself very old and a ‘lost battle’. It is …
ON DECEMBER 3, INDIA ALONG WITH REST OF THE world celebrated yet another International Day for people with disabilities and this provides an opportunity to focus on country’s ‘inclusive education’ effort. According to 2011 census, India has close to 2.68 crore such people and about 20-42 lakh children in 0-6 age group alone. And constitutional guarantee of equality and inclusion …
By Navin Bhatia ‘On September 17, all the media were abuzz with the peon recruitment news from Uttar Pradesh. For 368 posts of peons advertised, 23 Lakh applicants had applied of which 2.2 Lakh were B.Tech and 255 Ph.Ds! Just imagine the cost of skilling 2.2 Lakh B. Tech students @ Rs 12 Lakh for the four year course, which …
Going by the public utterances of the MHRD, India will have a new national policy on education by the end of this year. Though there is hardly any clue as to how the ongoing consultations at ‘various levels’ are being processed and ultimately how the new policy will be put to ‘vote’ for approval, there is still time left to …
ON THE EVE OF TEACHERS DAY THIS YEAR, Prime Minister Modi in his customary ‘pathshala’ address said teachers should write about students who left a mark on them. In fact, this is one thing among several things teachers can write about. But it appears, most teaches don’t even give a thought to writing. Some of them may parrot in public …
ON JULY 1, PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHED HIS PET and very ambitious ‘Digital India’ initiative formally though it has been operational incrementally in some forms like ‘MyGov’ and others in past several months. Befitting to the occasion, Prime Minister Modi eloquently worded his dream about this initiative. “I dream of a DIGITAL INDIA where: High-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation… 1.2 …
