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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicGovernment schools

Topic: Government schools

2 yrs after finance ministry veto, breakfast under school midday meal scheme back on Centre’s table

Breakfast estimated to require additional annual allocation of Rs 4,000 cr under scheme rebranded as PM Poshan in 2021. Preliminary discussions have been held, say ministry officials.

Smart classrooms, AI tools, e-libraries — how higher education in Odisha govt schools is levelling up

Inititiative's goal is to modernise 8,679 high schools in eastern state. Rural areas, were electrictiy supply is not steady as in cities, are were it faces challenges.

‘No power, toilets or water in Haryana schools’: HC raps Khattar govt for its ‘glaring insensitivity’

HC order has given Congress ammunition to hit out at state's BJP govt. Congress's Bhupinder Singh Hooda says HC exposed what people already knew — Khattar govt is complete 'non-performer'.

Unnao school headmaster arrested for ‘sexual abuse of 18 minor students’, booked under POCSO

According to FIR, girls — aged 7 to 14 yrs — accused the headmaster of sexually harassing them, while talking to school staff and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights members.

Mergers, addressing teacher shortage — NITI Aayog report on improving India’s public schools

Report builds on outcomes of NITI Aayog's Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital — Education project in MP, Jharkhand & Odisha, to make recommendations for other states, UTs. 

CBSE switch underway, but Jagan plans US system for Andhra govt schools. What stakeholders are saying

Tangible outcome of this transformation is students who clear Class 10, 12 will receive a joint certificate of AP board & International Baccalaureate, says vision document.

Andhra Pradesh is bracing for a school revolution—Byju’s tablets & bilingual textbooks

Andhra Pradesh's new textbooks-tablet initiative comes straight from CM Jagan Mohan Reddy. It's a move aimed at creating global citizens in schools.

UP adds Savarkar, Deendayal biographies to school syllabus. Opposition calls it ‘educational corruption’

Life histories of 50 personalities will be taught in classes 9-12. Opposition protests inclusion of Savarkar & Deendayal Upadhyaya, saying they didn't participate in freedom struggle.

‘Missing students’, unused rice: Inside Centre-formed panel’s report on Bengal midday meal ‘lapses’

Panel says many students enrolled in govt schools ‘study in private schools’. Bengal to now receive Rs 180 crore less than it demanded as central assistance under scheme in 2023-24.

DM orders probe, seeks report within 48 hours after dead snake found in mid-day meal in Bihar’s Araria

Children hospitalised as precaution have been discharged, says Araria DM, adds action will be taken against those found guilty.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.