IndiaSpend
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...
The Hindu
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...
The Logical Indian
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...
The Indian Express
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...
Views-voices.oxfam.org.uk
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...
Business Standard
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...
Newsclick
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...
CNBC-TV 18
"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...
Factchecker, Firstpost
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),...
The Times of India
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...