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Scrapping ‘No-Detention Policy’ Not Enough To Improve Learning Outcomes: Experts
IndiaSpend
4 February 2019
Indian states can now choose to hold children back in grades V and VIII if they fail the year-end tests, but this is not enough to improve learning outcomes, experts said. Earlier, students could not be held back--or ‘detained’--until grade...
Hard lesson: funds not enough to attract teachers to government schools
The Hindu
- 31 December 2018
This despite States increasing their budgets for school education in the past three years, says a study conducted across six States by two NGOs State governments have increased their budgets for school education in the past three years, but...
UP And Bihar Together Have 4.2 Lakhs Of Vacant Teacher Posts: Report
The Logical Indian
- 27 December 2018
The quality of education in government schools especially of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh is already in shambles and it is further deteriorating as the no. of government teachers required in these schools are too less than the prescribed. According to...
Severe shortage of teachers in public schools; most vacant posts in UP, Bihar: Report
The Indian Express
- 25 December 2018
Public schools in India are facing a dearth of teachers which makes quality education a far cry for children, says a study conducted by a child rights NGO. There is a shortage of more than five lakh teachers in elementary schools and 14 per cent of...
Motivating people to take action: towards an Asian narrative on tax justice and financial transparency
Views-voices.oxfam.org.uk
- 6 December 2018
Amy Croome, from Oxfam GB, interviews fellow researchers, and civil society actors, on approaches, challenges, and opportunities to tax justice in Asia. For two days academics, activists and civil society actors came together in Delhi to...
Think tank launches 'India Exclusion Report'
Business Standard
- 5 December 2018
The Centre for Equity Studies on Tuesday released its annual report on exclusion of several sections of the society from mainstream and denial of public goods to them on the basis of their class or caste or ethnicity, otherwise ensured to every...
Crisis of Inequality Gripping India
Newsclick
- 5 December 2018
The fourth edition of the India Exclusion Report, released here on Tuesday, points towards glaring inequalities gripping the nation and delves deeper into the identification of the sites of inequality. Releasing the report, Harsh Mander, Director...
CBGA-CRY study report being discussed in a series by CNBC-TV 18
CNBC-TV 18
- 24 July 2018
"Get Schooled" a new series, by CNBC-TV 18, discusses some of the important findings of CBGA-CRY study report titled "Budgeting for School Education: What Has Changed and What Has Not?": Part...
Narendra Modi govt claims 55% of Mudra loans given to backward classes, data tells a different story
Factchecker, Firstpost
- 21 June 2018
Up to 55 percent of all accounts opened under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY or the Prime Minister’s Small Business Finance Scheme) belong to individuals from scheduled castes (SC), scheduled tribes (ST) and other backward classes (OBC),...
Minister releases 7 papers on health-related issues in Bihar
The Times of India
- 5 April 2018
State health minister Mangal Pandey on Wednesday released seven working papers on issues related to population health characteristics and behaviour and the health interventions needed in Bihar. Speaking at a function organized on the Asian...