Read more about Transgenders can t get state benefits as most official data ignores other on Business Standard. Lack of means to record their preferred gender identities means that many Indians who identify as transgender are excluded from various social security benefits.
Private schools have complained of a data security breach by officials with the Department of Primary and Secondary Education, while student information was fed into the Unified District Information S
Watch | Explained: The cancellation of Board exams and what happens next
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A video explainer on the cancellation and postponing of Class X and Class XII examinations across Boards in India
Faced with a massive surge in COVID-19 cases, the Central government cancelled the CBSEs Class X examination and postponed the Class XII examination. The ICSE and ISC examinations have also been postponed.
The International Baccalaureate and several State Boards have taken similar decisions.
Students are now left wondering about the nature of formative academic assessment that will be applied to their Class X performance during the year gone by, which was marked by a shift to online classes and TV-based instruction.
Should teachers be government employees in State-run schools?
April 22, 2021
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It will be a good move to appoint teachers on par with government employees, considering the long-term benefits of students The issue about vacancies of teachers in India has been simmering for quite a while now. Take the case of the year 2018-19, which had witnessed 11.7 per cent rise in vacancies against the sanctioned numbner of posts of teachers. Of the 17,64,956 posts of teachers under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan an integrated scheme for school education, extending support to States from pre-school to senior secondary level 19.1 per cent posts were lying vacant and 8.8 per cent of teacher posts under State and Union Territory governments remained unfilled.