Right To Education

Notify RTE rules at the earliest: Sibal tells states

New Delhi: The Centre has asked states like West Bengal, Gujarat and Karnataka, which are yet to notify Right To Education (RTE) rules, to do so at the earliest. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has written letters to these states asking them to notify the rules in the larger interest of the students, sources in the HRD Ministry said. So far 30 states and UTs have notified the state rules or...

Corruption systematic in India: Kiran Bedi

Bhubaneswar: Advocating a strong investigative agency under purview of the proposed Lokpal, Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today said corruption in India was not "accidental or opportunistic but systematic and planned". "Corruption is not accidental or opportunistic but systematic and planned in India. There is need for a system change approach in order to end corruption," she said in Bhubaneshwar. Citing instances of the CBI being misused due to lack...

Mumbai: Rampant mismanagement in BMC schools

Mumbai: Mumbai's municipal schools are in a dismal state. An RTI obtained by CNN-IBN reveals a high dropout rate, a dearth of teachers, and rampant mismanagement, which are just some of the problems plaguing the system. The elections to control the country's richest civic corporation Brihan Mumbai Corporation (BMC), are just a month away, but questions raised about municipal education in Mumbai have thrown up disturbing answers. The BMC's own...

No RTE effect; primary schools in a sorry state

Mumbai: The Right to Education Act promises quality infrastructure in schools. When child relief organization CRY invited volunteers to click photographs of government schools, it was an image of horror. Basins covered with bird droppings, dirty toilets, dogs in the classroom, is the horrific reality at some of the government schools. The reality was captured in camera by citizen journalists for CRY's campaign called click rights. The best pictures were...

UP: Rahul visits Islamic clerics, discusses RTE

Lucknow: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Sunday visited Nadva, a renowned centre of Islamic learning, and met its rector Maulana Rabe Hasni Nadvi. Rahul had one-to-one meeting with the rector for over an hour, Congress sources said. The issue of Right to Education and reported confusion among Muslims over it was discussed, they said adding Rahul assured him that this would be removed. When asked to give his blessings...

Govt to launch Right to Education campaign today

Mumbai: The government will be launching the Right to Education campaign across the country called 'Shiksha Ka Abhiyaan' on National Education Day. It is reported that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make an appeal to the students of the country urging them to study hard. The appeal will be read out in 13 lakh schools across the country on Children's Day. Meanwhile, children in Uttar Pradesh will be listening to...

Right to Education Act hits roadblock in Bihar

Patna: The implementation of the Right to Education Act in Bihar hit a roadblock with over 25,000 private schools across the state observing a total strike on Wednesday paralysing teaching works to protest against the state government's bid to 'impose registration' on schools. The strike was called by the Confederation of four school associations -- Independent Schools' Association, Christian Minority Association, Bihar Public Schools and Children Welfare Association and Muslim...

Lottery system for nursery admission worries parents

New Delhi: The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry proposed new guidelines, giving sleepless nights to anxious parents who want to get their children admitted to nursery schools. The seats for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) are likely to increase by 25 per cent. Some schools also have a management quota of upto 20 per cent. If the EWS quota is implemented, it would leave only 55 per cent of the...

Education still a distant dream for many kids

New Delhi: The Government may have promised the Right to Education to every child but on Children's Day this year just how much of that promise has really been kept. A recent study reveals that India is home to the largest number of child labourers and school drop outs. The stories of child labourers are not of childhood fantasies but of a reality bitter and stark. This seven-year-old (identity concealed)...

Every Indian will be literate by 2020: Sibal

On Devil's Advocate this week, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal spoke to Karan Thapar on the United Progressive Alliance government's perceived loss of direction on key issues, its internal contradictions, and its ambitious plan to ensure free and compulsory education to all children above the age of six. Below is the transcript of that interview. Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. Just 15 months after...

09:38 PM, Aug 15, 2010