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Madhu Kumari teaches students of Class 1 to 5 in a government upper primary school for three hours devoting one hour each to mathematics, English, and Hindi. After that, the 15-year-old attends Class 7 for three hours in the school in Patpara locality of Rajasthan’s Bharatpur city. “I...
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October 12, 2017 Loknath Das
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I recall my recent visit to a district public library in Jharkhand. I was excited to learn that the collector had reclaimed the public library building that had been occupied by paramilitary forces for years. The building was large, spacious, well ventilated. It had a number of shelves,...
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October 6, 2017 Loknath Das
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Children sit by a muddy road behind the RTO office in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district. Vehicles speed by or stray dogs loiter around them, barking. They came to learn at a school set up by the government, but the failure of the administration to provide them a building...
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September 25, 2017 Loknath Das
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New Delhi: India’s key child rights panel, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), said on Monday that the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, must be amended to bring management committee of private school under its ambit. This suggestion came up...
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September 19, 2017 Loknath Das
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New Delhi: The murder of a class 2 student inside Ryan International School by a bus conductor in Gurgaon has prompted the Delhi government to order schools across the city to get their employees verified. Though the state government said the clearance certificates should be handed within 15...
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September 19, 2017 Loknath Das
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They have come out on the streets, not to protest, but to study. The students of a government primary school in Bundelkhand’s Chhatarpur are forced to attend classes in the open due to the unavailability of a school building. The school began functioning in January 2014 but never...
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September 18, 2017 Loknath Das
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