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Parliamentary Panel Finds over 40% Govt Schools Across India Don’t Have Electricity and Playgrounds
09 Mar 2020
It is not just about electricity, playground and boundary walls, but the government schools lack infrastructure—classrooms, library, labs, etc.
Ravi Kaushal
IIMC Students Begin Indefinite Hunger Strike Following New Circular on Fee Hike
18 Feb 2020
Students allege that the rising fees in the institute has also deprived students from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, with reserved seats remaining vacant in several departments.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Union Budget: FDI and NEP Will Privatise Higher Education
04 Feb 2020
The Union government’s spending on education as a percentage of GDP has seen a constant decline during the six years of Modi government at the Centre.
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Proportion of Girls Enrolled in Govt Institutions Higher Than Boys: ASER Report
16 Jan 2020
According to the report, among 4-5 year old children, 56.8% of girls and 50.4% boys are enrolled in government schools or pre-schools while 43.2% girls and 49.6% boys are enrolled in private pre-…
Vikram Singh
Fee Hike Means Further Exclusion of Common Students from Education
19 Nov 2019
It is nothing but backdoor privatisation of public educational institutions where students have to bear the cost of their education and the government is withdrawing from its responsibility by not…
Vikram Singh
IIM Ahmedabad Where Exclusion Is A Guiding Principle
23 Sep 2019
A recent notification of IIM-A for Ph.D. program in Management, 2020, had no provisions for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) quota.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Modi Government’s Years Are Marked by Attacks on Higher Education
21 Aug 2019
The government has replaced grants to public universities with infrastructure loans via the Higher Education Finance Agency (HEFA).
Venkatesh Athreya
Draft National Education Policy – Seductive Sophistry in Service of the RSS
29 Jul 2019
In direct opposition to treating education as a basic human right to be guaranteed by the State, the DNEP makes recommendations that turn education completely into a commodity, to be bought and sold.
Neelambaran A
Public Hearings on NEP Face Protests Across Tamil Nadu
24 Jul 2019
Academicians allege that privatisation, centralisation and commercialisation of education is highly objectionable; demand more time to deliberate on the draft NEP.